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millstone around one's neck: tags: [idiom]

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Definition:

a heavy responsibility that is difficult to bear.

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it is written, “Who causeth one of these little ones to offend, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depths of the sea.”

Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)

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Was there a way out of this, or had things already gone too far? He didn’t want this millstone.

Stephen King. The Stand (1990)