millsto Idioma

millstone about one's neck

Idiom(s): millstone about one's neck

Theme: BURDEN

a continual burden or handicap.
• This huge and expensive house is a millstone about my neck.
• Bill's inability to read is a millstone about his neck.

Millstone round your neck

A millstone around your neck is a problem that prevents you from doing what you want to do.

millstone around one's neck|millstone|neck

n. phr. An intolerable burden. Max said that his old car was a millstone around his neck.
Compare: MONKEY ON ONE'S BACK.

millstone around one's neck

millstone around one's neck
A heavy burden, as in Julie finds Grandma, who is crabby, a millstone around her neck. The literal hanging of a millstone about the neck is mentioned as a punishment in the New Testament (Matthew 18:6), causing the miscreant to be drowned. Its present figurative use was first recorded in a history of the Quakers (c. 1720).

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English Vocalbulary

lower one's voice lower oneself lower part lower sails Lower Saxony lower-status occupation lower tension lower than seasonal norms lower the standard lower world lowercase lowerclassman lowerclassmen lowered lowered his eyes lowered his voice lowered the flag to half-mast lowered the price