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To weep millstones. Not weep at all.
“Bid Glosʹter think on this, and he will weep—
Aye, millstones, as he lessoned us to weep.”
Shakespeare: Richard III., i. 6.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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