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millstone
noun as in heavy mental or emotional burden
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But the challenge of Europe is to accept a connection to a millstone that has the financial world teetering.
But all of this dubious wealth has become a millstone for the Swiss.
Take a millstone and grind meal: uncover thy shame, strip thy shoulder, make bare thy legs, pass over the rivers.
In other respects—never having been appealed to by love—it was as hard as a small millstone.
He owed them money, which at present he could not pay; his undischarged “debts of honour” hung like a millstone round his neck.
It was a thin slab, roughly circular in shape; not unlike what one might suppose a millstone to be in the rough.
I soon found he was a regular millstone round my neck—particularly when we were on the “walk-about.”
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On this page you'll find 67 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to millstone, such as: burden, accountability, affliction, albatross, anxiety, and blame.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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