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Millstone

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To look (or see) through a millstone. To be wonderfully sharp-sighted.

“Then … since your eies are so sharp that you can not only looke through a milstone, but cleane through the minde …”—Lilly: Euphues, etc.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Milksop (A)
Milky Way (The)
Mill
Mills of God grind slowly (The)
Millennium
Miller
Miller
Miller’s Eye (A)
Miller’s Thumb (A)
Milliner
Millstone
Millstone used for a Ferry (A)
Millstones
Millstones of Montisci (The)
Millwood (Sarah)
Milo
Milton
Mimer
Mimer’s Well
Mimosa
Mince (French)