millstone around (someone's) neck
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Пример использования идиомы millstone around (someone's) neck:
Jeffrey Jones has a handicap, but it is not a millstone around his family's neck; he is able to earn his own money.
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Другие идиомы:
- neck and neck
- risk one's neck (to do something)
- breathe down (someone's) neck
- dead from the neck up
- stick one's neck out (for someone or something)
- wring (someone's) neck
- pain in the neck
- kink in one's neck
- yoke around (someone's) neck
- able to breathe easily/freely again
- as broad as a barn door
- as dry as a bone
- as soft as a baby's bottom
- at each other's throats
- at the top of one's lungs