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
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 James, Henry
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 Leblanc, Maurice
Now it's his turn to go through the mill.
From The Red Room by Strindberg, August
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 Whitney, A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train)
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