Terms for subject Figure of speech containing grinding

English	Russian
come to a grinding halt	прекратиться (inn)
grind down into dust	стереть в пыль ("Camp dust" refers to notorious security chief Lavrenty Beria's preferred form of threat when interrogating prisoners: "sotru v lagernuyu pil!" (I'll grind you down into camp dust! VLZ_58)
grind into dust	стереть в мелкий порошок (Leonid Dzhepko)
grind to dust	стереть в мелкий порошок (Leonid Dzhepko)