"see into a millstone" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sees into a millstone",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "seeing into a millstone",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "saw into a millstone",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "seen into a millstone",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "see<,,saw,seen> into a millstone"
      },
      "expansion": "see into a millstone (third-person singular simple present sees into a millstone, present participle seeing into a millstone, simple past saw into a millstone, past participle seen into a millstone)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1778, Frances Burney, Evelina, or: a Young Lady's Entrance into the World, Volume 1/Letter XXV",
          "text": "\"Why, look'ee, Madam, if you must needs provoke me, I'll tell you a piece of my mind; you must know, I can see as far into a millstone as another man; and so, if you thought for to fob me off with another one of your smirking French puppies for a son-in-law, why you'll find yourself in a hobble, that's all.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1872, Mary Anne Hardy, A Woman's Triumph, volume 1, page 218",
          "text": "\"Why, mother, I should have thought you could see into a millstone as far as most people, and yet you can't see to the bottom of a foolish girl's heart.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To understand a complex matter."
      ],
      "id": "en-see_into_a_millstone-en-verb-IBUD8VPH",
      "links": [
        [
          "understand",
          "understand"
        ],
        [
          "complex",
          "complex"
        ],
        [
          "matter",
          "matter"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic, idiomatic, colloquial) To understand a complex matter."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "through a millstone"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "colloquial",
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "see into a millstone"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sees into a millstone",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "seeing into a millstone",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "saw into a millstone",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "seen into a millstone",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "see<,,saw,seen> into a millstone"
      },
      "expansion": "see into a millstone (third-person singular simple present sees into a millstone, present participle seeing into a millstone, simple past saw into a millstone, past participle seen into a millstone)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English colloquialisms",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with archaic senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1778, Frances Burney, Evelina, or: a Young Lady's Entrance into the World, Volume 1/Letter XXV",
          "text": "\"Why, look'ee, Madam, if you must needs provoke me, I'll tell you a piece of my mind; you must know, I can see as far into a millstone as another man; and so, if you thought for to fob me off with another one of your smirking French puppies for a son-in-law, why you'll find yourself in a hobble, that's all.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1872, Mary Anne Hardy, A Woman's Triumph, volume 1, page 218",
          "text": "\"Why, mother, I should have thought you could see into a millstone as far as most people, and yet you can't see to the bottom of a foolish girl's heart.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To understand a complex matter."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "understand",
          "understand"
        ],
        [
          "complex",
          "complex"
        ],
        [
          "matter",
          "matter"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic, idiomatic, colloquial) To understand a complex matter."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "colloquial",
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "through a millstone"
    }
  ],
  "word": "see into a millstone"
}