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grist to the mill en · NOUN

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1. (UK, alt-of, alternative, idiomatic, uncountable) Alternative form of grist for the mill.
   alt of grist for the mill
   • What evil will not a rival say to stop the flow of grist to the mill of the hated one? 1873 May 1 – December 22 (date written), Anthony Trollope, chapter 58, in The Way We Live Now. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Chapman and Hall, […], published June 1875, →OCLC:
   • This might all seem grist to Berkeley’s mill. Berkeley himself knew that we interpret our experience in spatio-temporal, objective terms. But he thought we had to ‘speak with the vulgar but think with the learned’: in other words, learn to regard that interpretation as a kind of façon de parler, rather than the description of a real, independent, objective world. 1999, Simon Blackburn, Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy (Oxford University Press paperback), ch. 7 section 6: "Kant’s Revolution", pp. 258–259