grist to the mill
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.67 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "What evil will not a rival say to stop the flow of grist to the mill of the hated one?"
- "This might all seem grist to Berkeley’s mill. Berkeley himself knew that we interpret our experience in spatio-temporal, objective terms. But he thought we had to ‘speak with the vulgar but think with the learned’: in other words, learn to regard that interpretation as a kind of façon de parler, rather than the description of a real, independent, objective world."
Usage
- British usage
- Uncountable