"grist to the mill" meaning in All languages combined

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          "ref": "1875, Anthony Trollope, chapter 58, in The Way We Live Now, London: Chapman and Hall, […]:",
          "text": "What evil will not a rival say to stop the flow of grist to the mill of the hated one?",
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          "ref": "1999, Simon Blackburn, Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy (Oxford University Press paperback, ch. 7 section 6: \"Kant’s Revolution\", pp. 258–259",
          "text": "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."
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        "(idiomatic, chiefly UK) Alternative form of grist for the mill"
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          "text": "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."
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