millstone

Example Sentences

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If he did so, his quotes against divorce would be an online millstone around his neck.

From Salon

"That whole cohort of writers from a working class background get labelled with it and it becomes a bit of a millstone," said Prof Williams.

From BBC

As the anecdotes added up, I couldn’t help but think of another saying we have in Afghanistan: We are the flour between two millstones.

From New York Times

Start-ups sputtered, and the stock options employees hoped would make them millionaires instead became millstones.

From Washington Post

For President Biden, inflation has become a political millstone or “the bane of our existence,” as he described it on Jimmy Kimmel’s talk show recently.

From Washington Post