go through the mill

Idioms  

1. see through the mill.

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Example Sentences

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

“We just go through the mill,” Kale says.

From Seattle Times

Now it's his turn to go through the mill.

From Project Gutenberg

Lucinda found it by no means easy to compose an attitude which she could depend upon to dishearten Bel decisively, without going to the length of telling him point-blank that she was in love with another man and meant to marry him as soon as her professional commitments would leave her free to go through the mill of Reno.

From Project Gutenberg

Hence, if a man is once caught in its toils, even though he is innocent, he will, generally speaking, have to go through the mill and come out at the far end.

From Project Gutenberg