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make heavy weather of

Verb CEFR C2

Definitions

To overcomplicate (something); to make (things) appear worse than they are.

transitive

Examples

“Philosophers, possibly with justification, make⟳ heavy weather of the concept of causation, but to a working biologist causation is a rather simple statistical concept.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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See also

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