- put you through the mill
- test your endurance or will, give you a hard time, run the gauntlet
On the first day, the workers will put you through the mill. They want to know if you are strong.
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put you through the mill
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through the mill — used a lot, nearly worn out, put you through the mill These jeans have been through the mill. They re ragged … English idioms
through the mill — {adv. phr.} 1. Experienced. * /You could tell immediately that the new employee had been through the mill./ 2. Through real experience of the difficulties of a certain way of life. * /Poor Jerry has had three operations in one year, and now he s… … Dictionary of American idioms
through the mill — {adv. phr.} 1. Experienced. * /You could tell immediately that the new employee had been through the mill./ 2. Through real experience of the difficulties of a certain way of life. * /Poor Jerry has had three operations in one year, and now he s… … Dictionary of American idioms
go through the mill — If you go through the mill, you have a very unpleasant experience. If you put someone through the mill, you make them undergo an unpleasant experience … The small dictionary of idiomes
mill — mill1 W3 [mıl] n ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(grain)¦ 2¦(cotton/cloth/steel)¦ 3 coffee/pepper mill 4 go through the mill 5 put somebody through the mill 6¦(money)¦ 7¦(million)¦ ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ [Sense: 1 5; Origin … Dictionary of contemporary English
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mill — 1 noun (C) 1 a building containing a large machine for crushing grain into flour, or the machine itself: an old mill with a ruined water wheel 2 a factory that produces materials such as cotton, cloth, steel: a woollen mill 3 coffee/pepper mill a … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
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