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millstone

 noun
     
mill‧stone [countable]
1TEM one of the two large circular stones that crush grain into flour in a mill
2

a millstone round/around somebody's neck

something that causes a lot of problems for someone, and that they cannot get rid of:
Inflation is still a millstone round the neck of British businesses.
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