Usually means: Experience difficult or painful situations.
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General (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. go through the mill: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. go through the mill: Wiktionary
  3. go through the mill: TheFreeDictionary.com
  4. go through the mill: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. go through the mill: Legal dictionary
  2. go through the mill: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. go through the mill: Encyclopedia

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  1. go through the mill: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (go through the mill)

verb:  (idiomatic) To experience the suffering or discipline necessary to bring one to a certain degree of knowledge or skill, or to a certain mental state.
verb:  (UK, slang, obsolete) To go through bankruptcy.

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