0 one of the two large, heavy stones used in an old-fashioned mill for grinding grain. -- batu pengisar
1 (usually with round one’s/the neck) something that is a heavy burden or responsibility, and prevents easy progress -- beban berat
Such people cannot put millstones round their necks in order to get houses which would cost £2,000 or £2,500, with very high interest rates.
In short, they amount to financial millstones which must be dealt with.
There are many other millstones both in the public and private sectors of our industry.
He is caught between the upper and the lower millstones.
I regard them as three millstones because they have been dragging the industry down.
Men and women are being caught between the upper and the nether millstones of these conditions.
They are rather like corn between the upper and nether millstones, and they often find that they are ground down.
Surely there should be some provision for him to escape from being ground between these two millstones.
