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Put someone's nose through or to the Grindstone

Parf of speech: Expression, OED Year: 1533, OED Evaluation: N/A

to get the mastery over another and treat him with harshness or severity, to grind down or oppress; also, in mod. use, to keep (oneself or another) continually engaged in hard and monotonous labour.

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And most of them people, they get grants, they've noticed and I'm being honest a year later they're not around, once they spend the money and they don't want to put their nose through the grindstone and- so at times I don't think it helps the p-- help people that way.
to get the mastery over another and treat him with harshness or severity, to grind down or oppress; also, in mod. use, to keep (oneself or another) continually engaged in hard and monotonous labour.
They've done it. Yeah, they've done- everybody- put their nose through the grindstone and they've completed that.
to get the mastery over another and treat him with harshness or severity, to grind down or oppress; also, in mod. use, to keep (oneself or another) continually engaged in hard and monotonous labour.