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make heavy weather
Idioms and Phrases
see under heavy going .Example Sentences
What are the factors currently at work as they once again make heavy weather of the early stages of their group?
Sufferers were known as "Hayfeverites", a mocking description of wealthy young people eager to make heavy weather of their symptoms.
Photograph: Clive Brunskill/Getty Images continued to make heavy weather of a straightforward-looking draw at the as he scraped past Nicolas Mahut on Friday, and next up for the 16-times grand slam champion is a player who thought his tournament was over a week ago.
Three albums in, they still make being in a multimillion-selling pop band seem like incredible fun, which is a rarer state of affairs than you might expect: they don't complain about the workload, or the pressures of fame, or any of the things pop bands past a certain point tend to make heavy weather of.
Pope knows his sea lore well, and though a few pages may make heavy weather for a landlubber, he has captured the salty flavor of the times as effectively as his hero's ships made prizes of their foes.
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