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any old	Any, absolutely any, any typical, a run-of-the-mill.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
faire venir l'eau au moulin	To bring grist to the mill.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
go through the mill	To experience the suffering or discipline necessary to bring one to a certain degree of knowledge or skill, or to a certain mental state.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
grist for the mill	Something that is useful or that creates a favorable opportunity.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
grist to the mill	Alternative form of grist for the mill.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
it's all grist to the mill	Everything referred to in the present context has some sort of use.1999, Simon Blackburn, Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy (Oxford University Press paperback, ISBN 0199690871), ch. 7 section 6: "Kant	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
mill about	To move or circulate in a confused or disorderly manner within a limited area.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
mill around	To move or circulate in a confused or disorderly manner within a limited area.	Rate it: (4.00 / 2 votes)
nothing special	Ordinary, run-of-the-mill.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
pill mill	An clandestine operation where a medical worker spuriously offers prescription medications to patients in exchange for bribes and not necessarily for any actual need.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
rumor mill	A group or network of persons who originate or promulgate gossip and other unsubstantiated claims.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
run-of-the-mill	Ordinary; not special.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
through the mill	badly treated, abused	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
tomato juice	A food obtained from the unfermented liquid extracted from mature tomatoes of the red or reddish varieties of Lycopersicum esculentum P. Mill, strained free from peel, seeds, and other coarse or hard substances, containing finely divided insoluble solids from the flesh of the tomato.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
trouble at mill	Problems outside the household, especially in the workplace.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
water to my mill	What energizes you; what stimulates you.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
water to one's mill	Whatever energizes or stimulates one.	Rate it: (4.00 / 1 vote)