Meaning of heavy lifting | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The most demanding part of an endeavour; work requiring the most effort, resources, or consideration.
   idiomatic, uncountable
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see heavy, lifting.
   uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“That's what I call⟳ the heavy-lifting part of the problem, and that's really where the term genetic caching comes into play⟳.”

“2003 March⟳ 18, John Howard, speech to the Australian Parliament Alliances are two-way processes and, where we are in agreement, we should not leave⟳ it to the United States to do all of the heavy lifting just because they are the world’s superpower.”

“At home, I told Mo I'd packed it in as Velvet's tutor. "Why?" she said. "Because she's an unappreciative little brat," I said. "I'm sick of her rudeness, and I'm sick of doing all the heavy lifting with this 'buddy' thing."”

“We want⟳ our experts to spend⟳ their time on this and do the heavy lifting for us.”

“Richard DeLongpre: Well, that went well. Come⟳ here, you. Jeremy DeLongpre: Oh, I'm really exhausted. Richard: That's okay, I'll do the heavy lifting.”

“any time there’s emotional heavy lifting to be done, we hear⟳ about what happened in passing as opposed to actually seeing how Indy is grappling with his ever-changing world.”

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