Job and Millstone

Job

Job noun - An assignment at which one regularly works for pay.

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Millstone and job are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Millstone" instead a noun "Job".

Nearby Word: jobless

Millstone noun - One of a pair of heavy flat disk-shaped stones that are rotated against one another to grind the grain.

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Job and millstone are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Job" instead a noun "Millstone".

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new job

new millstone

Peg's a lazy, sarcastic millstone who always takes from Al and doesn't contribute anything on her end, while Al is a miserable sexist with repulsive personal hygiene in a dead-end job and clinging to his glory days as a football player.

Source: Series / Married... with Children
He practically becomes a Millstone in the play Gory Gabriel's Treasure, where he gets fired from his job in favor of Happy Jack, sneaks along on the journey anyway to try and wow the pirates with his culinary arts, and ends up starting a fire on the Dark Lady with his cooking experiments.

Source: Theatre / Captain Sabertooth

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