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make heavy weather



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Idioms and Phrases

see under heavy going .
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Example Sentences

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What are the factors currently at work as they once again make heavy weather of the early stages of their group?

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Sufferers were known as "Hayfeverites", a mocking description of wealthy young people eager to make heavy weather of their symptoms.

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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.

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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.

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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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