millstone around one's neck
A heavy burden, as in Julie finds Grandma, who is crabby, a millstone around her neck. The literal hanging of a millstone about the neck is mentioned as a punishment in the New Testament (Matthew 18:6), causing the miscreant to be drowned. Its present figurative use was first recorded in a history of the Quakers (c. 1720).
Words nearby millstone around one's neck
mills bomb,
mills cross,
mills grenade,
mills of the gods grind slowly,
millstone,
millstone around one's neck,
millstream,
millville,
millwheel,
millwork,
millwright