go through the mill
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It was a nice 6-1 - you can expect to come here and have a 6-4 or 6-5 and go through the mill a little bit, but none of that at all.
From BBC ● Jan. 14, 2025
It upsets all my calculations," he thought, "and I shall have to go through the mill this time.
From The Teeth of the Tiger by Maurice Leblanc
I want to go through the mill in the ring.
From The Circus Boys Across the Continent : or, Winning New Laurels on the Tanbark by Edgar B. P. Darlington
You go through the mill, and you'll have a bigger grudge against every old shellback that dirties his plate in the three oceans, than the Bank of California could settle up.
From The Wrecker by Robert Louis Stevenson
She would go through the mill, by and by, and look at the looms; and so out, and over the river, then, to Aunt Faith's.
From Faith Gartney's Girlhood by A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train) Whitney
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