Bob bases the novels he writes on his own experience, so everything that happens to him is grist for the mill.
•Ever since I started making patchwork quilts, every scrap of cloth I find is grist for the mill.
Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.
grist — [grist] n. [ME < OE, akin to OHG grist in gristgrimmon, to gnash the teeth: for prob. IE base see GRIME] grain that is to be or has been ground; esp., a batch of such grain grist to someone s mill or grist for someone s mill anything that… … English World dictionary
mill — mill1 W3 [mıl] n ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(grain)¦ 2¦(cotton/cloth/steel)¦ 3 coffee/pepper mill 4 go through the mill 5 put somebody through the mill 6¦(money)¦ 7¦(million)¦ ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ [Sense: 1 5; Origin … Dictionary of contemporary English
mill — 1 noun (C) 1 a building containing a large machine for crushing grain into flour, or the machine itself: an old mill with a ruined water wheel 2 a factory that produces materials such as cotton, cloth, steel: a woollen mill 3 coffee/pepper mill a … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
grist — [[t]grɪ̱st[/t]] PHRASE: v link PHR, oft PHR of/for n If you say that something is grist to the mill, you mean that it is useful for a particular purpose or helps support someone s point of view … English dictionary
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