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
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
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
But Newman had resolved to go through the mill, as he imagined it, and he would not cry out at the first turn of the wheel.
From The American by Henry James
"He's trying to put me away and put his business associates away, and he has got to go through the mill unless——" "Unless what?" she asked.
From Jack O' Judgment by Edgar Wallace
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