(as) hard as the nether millstone イディオム
millstone about one's neck
Idiom(s): millstone about one's neckTheme: 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 neckA 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).
(as) adamantine as the nether millstone
Tough or acrid and absurd to submit. The byword is Biblical in origin. That guy is as adamantine as the nether millstone—he'll never accord you what you appetite in the negotiations.Learn more: hard, millstone, netherhard as the nether millstone
apathetic and unyielding. The nether millstone is the lower of the two millstones by which blah is ground. The byword alludes to Job 41:24: ‘His affection is as close as a stone, and as adamantine as a allotment of the nether millstone’.Learn more: hard, millstone, nether
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