millstone round one's neck in English

noun

problem that is preventing someone from making progress, stumbling block

Use "millstone round ones neck" in a sentence

1. His lazy son is a millstone round his neck.

2. Her lazy husband is a millstone round her neck.

3. My debts were like a millstone round my neck.

4. That mortgage have is like a millstone round my neck.

5. That mortgage has been like a millstone round my neck.

6. Inflation is still a millstone round the neck of British businesses.

7. His lazy son, who refuses to do any work, is a millstone round his neck.

8. His son a millstone around [ about ] his neck.

9. My debts are a millstone around my neck.

10. His son is a millstone around his neck.

11. His morals have been a millstone around my neck!

12. Unemployment was an economic millstone around the country's neck.

13. That contract proved to be a millstone around his neck.

14. Broke another one's neck.

15. The mortgage on his house had become a millstone around his neck.

16. Wrap a scarf round your neck.

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18. He had a scarf round his neck.

19. They tied a noose round her neck.

20. The pendant round my neck only complicated things.

21. He wears an identity disc round his neck.

22. Franco's noose began to tighten round Catalonia's neck.

23. A strand of coral beads hung round her neck.

24. She wore a string of beads round her neck.

25. A rope round her neck and she said no.