Grist

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–noun 

1. grain to be ground. (grind, ground, ground)



2. ground grain; meal produced from grinding.

3. a quantity of grain for grinding at one time; the amount of meal from one grinding.

4. Older Use. a quantity or lot. 



–verb (used with object) 

5. to grind (grain). 



—Idiom

6. grist for or to one's mill, something employed to one's profit or advantage, esp. something seemingly unpromising: Every delay was so much more grist [for] her mill.  





　 　

Of the Art Film-era über-auteurs, Fellini, Antonioni, Godard, Truffaut, Kurosawa, and Buñuel remain potent [currency] in one form or another (new work, old scripts, reissues, docs, tributes, etc.), but Ingmar Bergman seems to have faded dramatically [from] view. 



Clearly now, the respect he received was always on the verge of [dis]solving into contempt; going back as far as the 1968 short De Düva, things "Bergman-esque"—overt psychological symbology, brooding seriousness, spiritual crisis, Scandi-angst



—have been grist [for] farce. 



The grim Swede may have seemed to be an indomitable voice, but in today's cultural market, he's a nowhere man. 





grate

His constant chatter grates [on] my nerves.  

to grate on the [ear].  

to grate a [carrot]. 

to grate one's [teeth]. with people grating tulip bulbs to make soup. 

hone

Two decades in Tinseltown surely honed Verhoeven's [perversity]. 

Fray



niche 

But filmmakers with an easily defined [niche] and some marketing [flair] can still assemble a distribution plan.

to find one's niche in the [business] world. 

barter

to barter [wheat] for [machinery].

bartering [away] his [pride] for [material] gain.  

Sham