Synonym: albatross. Similar words: gallstone, mary wollstonecraft, well stocked, mills, hailstone, milestone, carry coals to Newcastle, winston churchill. Meaning: ['mɪlstəʊn] n. 1. (figurative) something that hinders or handicaps 2. any load that is difficult to carry 3. one of a pair of heavy flat disk-shaped stones that are rotated against one another to grind the grain.
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1. He is picking the surface of a millstone.
2. For today's politicians, the treaty is becoming a millstone.
3. My debts were like a millstone round my neck.
4. Unemployment was an economic millstone around the country's neck.
5. My debts are a millstone around my neck.
6. That contract proved to be a millstone around his neck.
7. The mortgage on his house had become a millstone around his neck.
8. Inflation is still a millstone round the neck of British businesses.
9. At the mercy of this resentment, this hateful millstone envy of the Calibans of this world.
10. Far below ground in the anticline were the Millstone Grits and even deeper were the Carboniferous Limestones.
11. This particular heritage may be a millstone around the neck of scientific natural history.
12. In the centre was inset yet another millstone seeded with yellow stone-crop.
13. Millstone has removed all the radioactive fuel in the reactor to permit repairs.
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14. Paradoxically, Anthea now threatened to become a millstone to drag him down.
15. His lazy son is a millstone round his neck.
16. The lower millstone grinds as well as the upper.
17. His son is a millstone around his neck.
18. He's caught between the upper and nether millstone.
19. The heavy millstone leaves him flat.
20. Her lazy husband is a millstone round her neck.
21. He's between the upper and nether millstone.
22. His son a millstone around [ about ] his neck.
23. That mortgage has been like a millstone round my neck.
24. That mortgage have is like a millstone round my neck.
25. His lazy son, who refuses to do any work, is a millstone round his neck.
26. A farmer is using a shire horse to pull the millstone which crushes the fruit.
27. He could choreograph for the company that was coming to feel like a millstone, and he could tour.
28. There they used the water power to drive large hammers and grinding wheels made of the local Millstone Grit.
29. It regulated the output but not the power of a millstone.
30. The three abrasive rollers are distributed at the roller path of the millstone uniformly, and are fixedly to the loading rack.
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