nether millstone

Between these upper and nether millstones great numbers of decent people are squeezed.

We're the barbarians-right between the upper and nether millstones!

Let Flaminius win, and we will be as grain between the upper and nether millstones.

There was a ships' chandler in New Orleans who had nether millstones that were harder than any others.

Don't you see, you poor perishing middle class, you are caught between the upper and nether millstones, and even now has the grinding begun.

Annegret Winkler-Nehls / Andreas Nehls: "They find themselves between the upper and the nether millstones".

The prehistory room, at least in 1965, included items related to pebble culture, including material from the Amgamma cliff, Stone Age implements, axes with helve-holes, nether millstones, and quartz and obsidian arrowheads.

Does the Secretary of State agree that despite the tremendous advances in productivity made by the employees of British Coal, the perverse reward that the Government give them is to squeeze the British coal industry between the upper and nether millstones?