grist for the mill

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grist for the mill and grist for someone's mill; grist to the mill

Fig. something useful or needed. Bob bases the novels he writes on his own experience, so everything that happens to him is grist for the mill. Ever since I started making patchwork quilts, every scrap of cloth I find is grist for the mill.

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