Meanings of nether millstones in anglès

Competing employers are the upper and nether millstones which grind the workers between them.'

Are Gentleman Jim and Kangaroo Bob the upper and nether millstones between which humanity is being ground?

They proved to be the upper and nether millstones between which the Jewish nationality was ground to powder.

That, in fact, the poor, largely speaking, were between the upper and nether millstones of low wages and high prices.

The Norman ground all down to a common servitude between the upper and nether millstones of the feudal system-theking and the nobleman.

This Confederate corps now fronted toward the main army of Lee, and the bragging Federal found himself between the upper and nether millstones.

These are the people who will be as hard as the nether millstones, and utterly blind to all enthusiasm and to all goodness.

I have never ceased to wonder that anything was left of us, after having been thus ground between the upper and nether millstones.

Don't you see, you poor perishing middle class, you are caught between the upper and nether millstones, and even now has the grinding begun.

Between the upper and nether millstones of Elizabeth's rapacity and Alva's arrogance, the poor remains of Flemish prosperity were well nigh crushed out of existence.

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