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

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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