go through the mill
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go through the mill
verb goes through the mill · going through the mill · went through the mill · gone 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.
- To go through bankruptcy. All know the high estimation debtors held the Act 1861, by the number who went "through the mill" at the close of 1869.
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verb to gain experience or maturity through suffering or discipline
| Français | en voir de toutes les couleurs, être mis à rude épreuve |
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| Русский | пройти́ ого́нь и во́ду projtí ogónʹ i vódu, пройти́ ого́нь, во́ду и ме́дные тру́бы projtí ogónʹ, vódu i médnyje trúby |
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