go through the mill

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Verb

go through the mill (see inflection at go)

(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

Translations

to gain experience or maturity through suffering or discipline

Russian: пройти́ ого́нь и во́ду (projtí ogónʹ i vódu) (lit: go through fire and water), пройти́ ого́нь, во́ду и ме́дные тру́бы (projtí ogónʹ, vódu i médnyje trúby) (lit: go through fire, water and copper pipes)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: про̑ћи си̏то и решѐто

Roman: prȏći sȉto i rešèto

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