"go through the mill" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-go through the mill.ogg [Australia] Forms: goes through the mill [present, singular, third-person], going through the mill [participle, present], went through the mill [past], gone through the mill [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|go<goes,,went,gone> through the mill}} go through the mill (third-person singular simple present goes through the mill, present participle going through the mill, simple past went through the mill, past participle gone through the mill)
  1. (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. Tags: idiomatic Translations (to gain experience or maturity through suffering or discipline): kärsiä (Finnish), en voir de toutes les couleurs (French), être mis à rude épreuve (French), przechodzić twardą szkołe [imperfective] (Polish), przejść twardą szkołe [perfective] (Polish), пройти́ ого́нь и во́ду (projtí ogónʹ i vódu) (english: lit: go through fire and water) (Russian), пройти́ ого́нь, во́ду и ме́дные тру́бы (projtí ogónʹ, vódu i médnyje trúby) (english: lit: go through fire, water and copper pipes) (Russian), про̑ћи си̏то и решѐто [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), prȏći sȉto i rešèto [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian)

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      "sense": "to gain experience or maturity through suffering or discipline",
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