Thesaurus / millstone
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Start-ups sputtered, and the stock options employees hoped would make them millionaires instead became millstones.
MY COMPANY STOCK OPTIONS ARE WORTHLESSKARLA MILLERAUGUST 4, 2022WASHINGTON POSTUnlike in the 1990s, the Taliban no longer have a millstone around their neck in the form of Osama bin Laden, the terrorist mastermind and wealthy Saudi financier who effectively bought his sanctuary in Afghanistan by bankrolling the group.
BUTTERFLY EFFECT: WHY TALIBAN 2.0 IS MORE DANGEROUSCHARU KASTURIAUGUST 12, 2021OZYTake a millstone and grind meal: uncover thy shame, strip thy shoulder, make bare thy legs, pass over the rivers.
THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSIONVARIOUSIn other respects—never having been appealed to by love—it was as hard as a small millstone.
THE FLOATING LIGHT OF THE GOODWIN SANDSR.M. BALLANTYNEHe owed them money, which at present he could not pay; his undischarged “debts of honour” hung like a millstone round his neck.
JULIAN HOMEDEAN FREDERIC W. FARRARIt was a thin slab, roughly circular in shape; not unlike what one might suppose a millstone to be in the rough.
THE DEVIL-TREE OF EL DORADOFRANK AUBREYI soon found he was a regular millstone round my neck—particularly when we were on the “walk-about.”
THE ADVENTURES OF LOUIS DE ROUGEMONTLOUIS DE ROUGEMONTWould it not be better for him to tie a millstone round his neck and cast himself into the sea?
ORLEY FARMANTHONY TROLLOPEThey marry, and in this small world of ours they give a hostage as heavy as a millstone of their chances of happiness.
MR. GREX OF MONTE CARLOE. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM"But Moses was the first lawgiver to forbid taking the nether millstone as a pledge," objected Robin.
THE MASTER-KNOT OF HUMAN FATEELLIS MEREDITHWORDS RELATED TO MILLSTONE
- assignment
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- business
- calling
- charge
- daily grind
- deadweight
- duty
- effort
- employment
- enterprise
- errand
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- fun and games
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- labor
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- long row to hoe
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- mission
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- onus
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- project
- province
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