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a millstone round someone's neck

• a heavy and inescapable responsibility.
• "the massive pension fund is going be a millstone round the company's neck for decades"
Similar: burden, unwanted responsibility, encumbrance, dead weight, load, onus, duty, obligation, liability, trouble, problem, misfortune, affliction, cross to bear, albatross, cumber,


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