put through the mill
Example Sentences
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Visiting fans, reeling from the disappointment of Sunday's defeat, were put through the mill in those closing stages but now have another Hampden date to look forward to on 16 April.
From BBC • Mar. 16, 2016
Photograph: Paul Childs/Action Images If just one thing can be guaranteed at this weekend's , it is that both captains will be put through the mill.
From The Guardian • Sep. 26, 2012
Most of the specific questions which Oswaldo Aranha, as President of the Conference, will have to put through the mill of discussion are questions in which the U.S. is prime mover.
From Time Magazine Archive
“I should not dare to say that, until I had been put through the mill myself, and come out unpulverised.”
From The Daughters of Danaus by Caird, Mona
Meffett, began by teaching every candidate the rudiments of the game; veterans and greenhorns alike were put through the mill.
From Swimming Scientifically Taught A Practical Manual for Young and Old by Dalton, Frank Eugen
