be (like) a millstone around/round your neck
Definition
› to be a responsibility that is difficult to bear and causes you trouble: The mortgage on his house had become a millstone around his neck.Duty, obligation and responsibility
(Definition of be (like) a millstone around/round your neck from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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be (as) solid as a rock idiom
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be (as) thick as thieves idiom
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be (caught) between a rock and a hard place idiom
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be (dead) set against sth idiom
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be (down) in black and white idiom
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be (like) putty in sb's hands idiom
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be (like) sheep idiom
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be (living) in a dream world idiom
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be (of) (any/some) use idiom
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be (of) no use idiom
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Synonyms and related words:
- accountable adjective
- answer for sb/sth phrasal verb
- answer for sth phrasal verb
- answer to sb phrasal verb
- answerable adjective
- commitment noun
- fail noun 2
- had better/best do sth idiom
- hat noun
- have sth on your hands idiom
- I am not my brother's keeper idiom
- in the hot seat idiom
- owe sb a living idiom
- pass the buck idiom
- pay your dues idiom
- portfolio noun (JOB)
- preserve noun (ACTIVITY)
- purview noun
- remit noun
- shoulder noun (RESPONSIBILITY)
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