through the mill

Language: en

Meaning: (idiomatic)Through a period of bad treatment or anordeal.1907,E.M. Forster,The Longest Journey, Part II, XVIii [Uniform ed., p. 192]:My father found me a nuisance, and put methrough the mill, and I can never forget it particularly the evenings.1999, J. K. Rowling, chapter 4, inHarry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Bloomsbury:‘He’s beenthrough the mill, this one,’ she said.put through the mill

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