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(idiomatic) Something that is useful or that creates a favorable opportunity.

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grist for the mill

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Source Word

grist for the mill

idiomatic uncountable

(idiomatic) Something that is useful or that creates a favorable opportunity.

Japanese Meaning

機会を生む種、つまり有益な要素や材料として活用できるもの / （事態を有利に進めるための）利用可能な材料または根拠となるもの

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Every anecdote he collected was grist for the mill as he prepared his novel.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

彼が集めたすべての逸話は小説の準備に役立つ材料になった。

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(idiomatic) Something that is useful or that creates a favorable opportunity.

They were sitting across from each other at the bar as Lionel described his odyssey across the country in a Trailways bus, gathering material, as he put it. It was all grist for the mill, life real and raw out there west of New Jersey.

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