millstone

But the challenge of Europe is to accept a connection to a millstone that has the financial world teetering.

But all of this dubious wealth has become a millstone for the Swiss.

Take a millstone and grind meal: uncover thy shame, strip thy shoulder, make bare thy legs, pass over the rivers.

In other respects—never having been appealed to by love—it was as hard as a small millstone.

He owed them money, which at present he could not pay; his undischarged “debts of honour” hung like a millstone round his neck.

It was a thin slab, roughly circular in shape; not unlike what one might suppose a millstone to be in the rough.

I soon found he was a regular millstone round my neck—particularly when we were on the “walk-about.”