英语词汇grist for the mill的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	grist for the mill
词源	grist for the mill. One might think that this 17th-century proverbial saying would be little used today, when many people don’t even know that grist refers to grain ground to make flour. But grist for the mill is commonly heard to denote anything profitable or useful, material that a person can change into something valuable.
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