HEAVY LIFTING

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Difficult work

Example:

the boss hoped the plan would succeed but he wasn't willing to do the heavy lifting

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("heavy lifting" is a kind of...):

work (activity directed toward making or doing something)

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

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