词汇 | a millstone around your neck |
释义 | Idiom a millstone around your necka millstone around (your) neck a problem or responsibility that you have all the time which prevents you from doing what you want.I'd rather not be in debt - I don't want that millstone around my neck. millstone around (one's) neckA heavy burden. I wish I hadn't bought that house—the mortgage is a millstone around my neck. a millstone around your neckBRITISH, AMERICAN ora millstone round your neckBRITISHCOMMON If something is a millstone around your neck or a millstone round your neck, it is a very unpleasant problem or responsibility that you cannot escape from. The country's inefficient telephone company has been a millstone round the government's neck. Long-term illness can make you feel like a millstone around your family's necks. Note: Millstone is often used on its own with this meaning. There is the continuing millstone of the country's enormous foreign debt. Note: A millstone is one of a pair of very heavy round flat stones which are used to grind grain. Jesus referred to children in Matthew 18:5 by saying, `Whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.' |
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