Burden
Millstone
Millstone noun - Any load that is difficult to carry.
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- This would not have been a problem for a state which was willing and able to tax its people on anything more than a token level, but the burden of reparations constituted a pretty heavy millstone around the Qing's all-too-slender neck.
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Ironically, Bloo himself is generally the Millstone to everyone else at Foster's, to the point where in the very same episode he mentions that being a burden is his 7th favourite thing.
- The Millstone: Danzo becomes this during the Fourth Shinobi War, being a burden on them and telling Konoha they should drop out of The War due to his hatred of Orochimaru.
Source: Fan Fic / A Father's Wrath
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