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heavy going
Difficult, as in Tom found calculus heavy going , or It's going to be heavy weather for us from here on . The first expression originally referred to a road or path that was hard to negotiate; the variant alludes to bad weather at sea. [Mid-1800s]
make heavy weather of . Make hard work or a fuss over something, especially unnecessarily. For example, They made heavy weather of the differences between their proposals, which actually seemed much alike . This use of weather likens a commotion to a storm. [Mid-1900s]
Idioms and Phrases
Also, heavy weather .Example Sentences
Walking across his arable farm near Malmesbury is heavy going.
Lewis’ prose can be heavy going, but the action flows effortlessly in DiPietro’s play.
On paper, it’s pretty heavy going.
Bjork’s 10th studio album can be heavy going.
Progress was heavy going, though, stalled by residents suspicious of the mayor's intentions who had fears of gentrification, being priced out and forced away.
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