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millstone around one's neck

[millstone around one's neck] {n. phr.}

An intolerable burden.

/Max said that his old car was a millstone around his neck./

Compare: MONKEY ON ONE'S BACK.

Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms

by A. Makkai, M.T. Boatner, J.E. Gates © 2010

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