Sentence examples for going through the mill from inspiring English sources

Idiom

Go through the mill.

If you go through the mill, you have a very unpleasant experience.

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Mr Clare was keen to hang on longer and thought the company gained character from going through the mill.

Unfortunately, I am still going through the mill of university administration in both France and Hungary in order to get my Ph.D. recognised.

But actually, going through the mill of trying to be interesting and hang out with celebrities, I treat everyone the same way.

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French-Milled soap goes through the mill three times, so it's often called triple milled.

The Lawrences are to go through the mill once again.

If he proceeds, Cairns may have to go through the mill all over again.

Dillon could have been an elegant potterer, but no — he went through the mill".

"Everything goes through the mill, but at the moment we are up to our eyeballs," he said.

The custom at my school, and many others like it, was to make birthday boys go "through the mill".

You'd have thought they'd have gone through the mill enough when their son was still playing.

Something makes me doubt that Mitt Romney ever went through the mill at Cranbrook Schools, the élite academy he attended in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.

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