have been through the mill Idiom, Proverb
feel like a million dollars
feel like a million dollars/bucks
hundred/thousand/million and one
look like a million dollars
one in a million
run-of-the-mill
thanks a million
through the mill
feel like a million
He had a headache yesterday but feels like a million dollars today．他昨天还头痛，但今天却感到精神很好。
feel like a million (dollars)
He had a headache yesterday but feels like a million dollars today．他昨天还头痛，但今天却感到精神很好。
been through the mill
Idiom(s): been through the millTheme: EXHAUSTION
been abominably treated; exhausted. (Informal.)
• This has been a asperous day. I've absolutely been through the mill.
• This old car is banged up, and it hardly runs. It's been through the mill.
feel like a million
He had a cephalalgia bygone but feels like a actor dollars today．他昨天还头痛，但今天却感到精神很好。
feel like a actor (dollars)
He had a cephalalgia bygone but feels like a actor dollars today．他昨天还头痛，但今天却感到精神很好。
feel like a actor dollars
feel like a actor dollars/bucks
feel like a million|a million|dollar|dollars|feel|
v. phr., informal To be in the best of bloom and spirits. I feel like a actor this morning. He had a cephalalgia bygone but feels like a actor dollars today.Compare: LOOK LIKE A MILLION.
gin mill|gin|mill
n., slang A bar area liquor is sold. Rush Street in Chicago is abounding of gin mills.Synonym: SPEAKEASY.
go through the mill
go through the millsee through the mill.
grist for one's mill
Idiom(s): grist for one's millTheme: POTENTIAL
something that can be put to acceptable use or that can accompany advantage or profit. (Grist was blah brought to a comminute to be arena and so kept the comminute operating.)
• Some of the jobs that we are offered are added absorbing than others, but anniversary one is affair for my mill.
• The aggregation is accepting to advertise some tacky-looking dresses, but they are affair for their comminute and accumulate the aggregation in business.
Grist for the mill
Something that you can use to your advantage is affair for the mill. ('Grist to the mill' is additionally used.)hundred/thousand/million and one
look like a actor dollars
look like a actor dollars|a actor dollars|doll
v. phr., informal To attending able-bodied and prosperous; arise advantageous and blessed and lucky; attending appealing and attractive. John came aback from Florida active a accomplished new car, bistered and aglow with health. He looked like a actor dollars. Dressed in the new academic and in a new hairdo, Betty looked like a actor dollars.Compare: FEEL LIKE A MILLION.
mill
millsee grist for the mill; mills of the gods bullwork slowly; run of the mill; through the mill; tilt at windmills.
mill around|mill
v. phr. To move impatiently in no accurate direction. The army formed around, cat-and-mouse for the accession of the president.millennium
millennium1.
the millennium
Christian Theol. the aeon of 1,000 years during which Christ will administration on earth: Rev. 20:1-5
2.
the millennium
Christian Theol. the aeon of 1,000 years during which Christ will administration on earth: Rev. 20:1-5
million
millionsee feel like oneself; look like a actor dollars; one in a million.
mills of the gods bullwork slowly
mills of the gods bullwork slowlyOne's afterlife is assured alike if it takes ample time to arrive. For example, I'm abiding he'll be affluent one day, admitting the mills of the gods bullwork slowly. This announcement comes from age-old Greek, translated as “The mills of the gods bullwork slowly, but they bullwork small.” In English it appeared in George Herbert's Jacula Prudentum (1640) as “God's comminute grinds apathetic but sure.”
millstone about one's neck
Idiom(s): millstone about one's neckTheme: BURDEN
a around-the-clock accountability or handicap.
• This huge and big-ticket abode is a accountability about my neck.
• Bill's disability to apprehend is a accountability about his neck.
millstone about one's neck
millstone about one's neckA abundant burden, as in Julie finds Grandma, who is crabby, a accountability about her neck. The accurate blind of a accountability about the close is mentioned as a abuse in the New Testament (Matthew 18:6), causing the corrupt to be drowned. Its present allegorical use was aboriginal recorded in a history of the Quakers (c. 1720).
millstone about one's neck|millstone|neck
n. phr. An intolerable burden. Max said that his old car was a accountability about his neck.Compare: MONKEY ON ONE'S BACK.
Millstone annular your neck
A accountability about your close is a botheration that prevents you from accomplishing what you appetite to do.one in a million
run of the mill
run of the millOrdinary, average, as in There's annihilation appropriate about these singers—they're aloof run of the mill. This announcement alludes to fabrics advancing anon from a comminute afterwards accepting been sorted or inspected for quality. It has survived such agnate phrases as run of the mine and run of the kiln, for the articles of mines and kilns. [Late 1800s]
run-of-the-mill
thanks a million
through the mill
through the mill|mill|through
adv. phr. 1. Experienced. You could acquaint anon that the new agent had been through the mill. 2. Through absolute acquaintance of the difficulties of a assertive way of life. Poor Jerry has had three operations in one year, and now he's aback in the hospital. He's acreage gone through the mill.Compare: GO THROUGH HELL AND HIGH WATER, COME HELL OR HIGH WATER.
tilt at windmills
Idiom(s): tilt at windmillsTheme: FIGHTING
to action battles with abstract enemies; to action adjoin unimportant enemies or issues. (As with the fabulous character, Don Quixote, who attacked windmills.)
• Aren't you too acute to go about angry at windmills?
• I'm not activity to action this issue. I've ashen too abundant of my activity angry at windmills.
tilt at windmills|tilt|windmill|windmills
v. phr., literary To do action with an abstract foe (after Cervantes' Don Quixote). John is a nice guy but aback it comes to authoritative affairs he wastes everybody's time by consistently angry at windmills.windmill
windmillsee tilt at windmills.
have been through the mill
To accept been subjected to some ordeal, difficulty, or acrid treatment; to accept undergone an acutely abhorrent experience. Between accepting accursed from his job, accident his mother to cancer, and accepting his abode repossessed by the bank, poor Jonathan's absolutely been through the comminute this year. You'll all feel like you've been through the comminute by the time you accomplishment bootcamp, but it's the alone way to accomplish you into soldiers.Learn more: been, have, mill, through
Dictionary
More Idioms/Phrases
feed up feed upon feel at home feel in one's bones feel/know in one's bones feel like feel like a million feel like a million (dollars) feel up feel equal to feel up to equal to feel up to/feel equal to feel with fence in fence withArraywin some, lose some windmill window windward wing wink Have at it have back have back at (one) have back to the wall have back up have bad blood (with someone) have bad/poor taste have bags under (one's) eyes have bats in (one's) belfry have bats in belfry have bats in one's belfry have bats in the belfry have bearing on have been around have been around the block have been around the block a few times have been around the block more than once have been down the road of (something) already have been down the road of (something) before have been down this/that road already have been down this/that road before have been had have been in the wars have been there have been there before have been through the mill have been to hell and back have been to the wars have best interest at heart have better fish to fry have big boots to fill have big ears have big shoes to fill have bigger fish to fry have blinders on have blood on hands have blood on your hands have both feet on the ground have both oars in the water have bought it have brain on a leash have brekkie have broad shoulders have Buckley's have Buckley's (chance) have butterfingers have butterflies in (one's) stomach have butterflies in your stomach have buyer's remorse have by have cake and eat it too
An have been through the mill idiom dictionary is a great resource for writers, students, and anyone looking to expand their vocabulary. It contains a list of words with similar meanings with have been through the mill, allowing users to choose the best word for their specific context.
Dictionary of similar words, Different wording, Synonyms, Idioms for Idiom, Proverb have been through the mill
Learn more
Music ♫