- grist (for somebody/something) useful ideas or material
- Pearl Harbor has provided the grist for more than 100 books and at least seven movies.
Word OriginOld English ‘grinding’, of Germanic origin; related to grind.
Idioms
(all) grist to the/somebody’s mill (British English)
(North American English (all) grist for the/somebody’s mill)
- something that is useful to somebody for a particular purpose
- Political sex scandals are all grist to the mill of the tabloid newspapers.
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