millstone around one's neck イディオム
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).
a accountability about (one's) neck
An acutely difficult or adverse accountability or hindrance. I ambition I hadn't bought that house—the mortgage is a accountability about my neck. Given the advisor's laundry account of scandals, he's proving to be absolutely a accountability about the candidate's neck.Learn more: around, millstone, neckmillstone about one's neck
A abundant burden, as in Julie finds Grandma, who is crabby, a accountability about her neck. The accurate blind of a accountability about the close is mentioned as a abuse in the New Testament (Matthew 18:6), causing the corrupt to be drowned. Its present allegorical use was aboriginal recorded in a history of the Quakers (c. 1720). Learn more: around, millstone, neck