英语词汇put through the mill的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	put through the mill
词源	put through the mill. Someone put through the mill gets rough treatment like the grain that is ground under millstones in a water mill. This is one of numerous old expressions deriv- ing from the milling of grain. Another is the term mill. Still another is the proverb much water runs by the mill that the mill- er knows not of: many things happen right before us about which we know nothing.
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