He is a "millstone" around the party's neck, laments the top FDP candidate in Rhineland-Palatinate, one of seven German states that will hold elections in 2011.
The reason being is that, if one were so inclined, one could point to several imperfections in Sega's new shooter as evidence that it deserves a lower score – not the least of which is the legacy of the film this game purports to be a sequel to, and which is a millstone around its neck.
It may well have dawned on him that hostility to immigrants is a millstone around his party's grand old neck.
As mothers go, Lyd has always been a millstone around Emily's neck.
"I don't want the money to be a millstone around anybody's neck, including the office's," he said.
"The SNP are a millstone around Glasgow's neck – stifling jobs, cutting the housing and regeneration budget next year, and giving the NHS in Glasgow the worst settlement since devolution," he said earlier today.
Anecdotally, I know our 80+ year old neighbors do – they enjoy a film now and again – but the physical stores are a millstone around BB's neck.
Spain's recession-hit economy has been a millstone around Vodafone's neck for some time now.
However there is a perfectly good argument that they should want to do them: that if the British state is a millstone around our necks it should be lighter.
And it can be a millstone around the world's neck when it decides, as it did on Friday, to self-harm.
Ruined, vast its core could fit the whole of St Paul's Cathedral and protected from demolition by an English Heritage listing, it has been a millstone around the area's neck for four decades.
