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grist
[ grist ]
noun
- grain to be ground.
- ground grain; meal produced from grinding.
- a quantity of grain for grinding at one time; the amount of meal from one grinding.
- Older Use. a quantity or lot.
verb (used with object)
- to grind (grain).
grist
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noun
- grain intended to be or that has been ground
- the quantity of such grain processed in one grinding
- brewing malt grains that have been cleaned and cracked
- grist to the mill or grist to one's mill or grist for the mill or grist for one's millanything that can be turned to profit or advantage
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of grist1
Idioms and Phrases
- grist for / to one's mill, something employed to one's profit or advantage, especially something seemingly unpromising:
Every delay was so much more grist for her mill.
Example Sentences
For added populist grist, the club is located above the Milken Institute, a think tank founded by a formerly incarcerated financier, Michael Milken, and is majority owned by Ron Burkle, a billionaire investor.
This ought to be grist to the mill of the Scottish pack.
The new study contributes valuable grist for the continuing debate over the social and economic impacts of abortion restrictions.
Policy details at this stage of a campaign do little but give opponents and pundits grist for nitpicking.
The attempted assassination is giving some Trump supporters more grist for their accusations that the former president is being persecuted by the Biden administration.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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