millstone

US: /ˈmɪɫˌstoʊn/

UK: /mˈɪlstə‍ʊn/


English - Vietnamese dictionary

millstone /'milstoun/
  • danh từ
    • đá cối xay
    • between the upper and the nethrt milstone
      • trên đe dưới búa
    • to have (fix) a millstone about one's neck
      • đeo cùm vào cổ; gánh vác công việc nặng nề
    • to see [far] into a millstone
      • (xem) see

Advanced English dictionary

+ noun
one of two flat circular stones used, especially in the past, to crush grain to make flour
Idioms: a millstone around / round your neck a difficult problem or responsibility that it seems impossible to solve or get rid of: My debts are a millstone around my neck. + Unemployment was an economic millstone around the country's neck.

Concise dictionary

millstones'mɪlstəʊn
noun
+(figurative) something that hinders or handicaps
+any load that is difficult to carry
+one of a pair of heavy flat disk-shaped stones that are rotated against one another to grind the grain

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