heavy lifting
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3.6
- noun
- /ˈhɛvi ˈlɪftɪŋ/
:
trabajo duro
- Gwyneth Jones does much of the heavy lifting to keep our café running.
I, I actually did very little Joe Buck did the heavy lifting that night.
- I, I actually did very little Joe Buck did the heavy lifting that night.
- All that banging and heavy lifting finally caught up with me and it was time to go.
- It is a job and it's heavy lifting.
- The reason why they're able to do that is they're doing all the heavy lifting virtually.
- No, Writing is easy, but it's easier once all the heavy lifting has been done.
- So all this heavy lifting infrastructure was already in place and I could stand on its shoulders.
- It also forces all of us to take a long hard look at relationships with that we have where we do most of the heavy lifting, listening and planning.
- In fact, ChatGPT and tools like that will do most of the heavy lifting for you in terms of the information that you need.
- That is not a heavy lifting technique, but it makes you feel like, oh, you know, I've got this.
- That if you choose the right initial dominoes, you can allow Cascades to take care of a lot of the heavy lifting later.
- And dude, the Iraqis did the heavy lifting like they really did and they were taken heavy casualties.
- Or I'll do heavy lifting and strength strength training.
Examples
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They're the ones that have done all the heavy lifting during his health scares in recent years.
Blog text (6) -
No, Writing is easy, but it's easier once all the heavy lifting has been done.
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So the heavy lifting, you could say, has been done already up to this point.
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I just think, whatever it is you do, it's time you did some heavy lifting.
Fiction book (1998) -
But we get a huge leg up because Europe has done the heavy lifting for us.
Blog text (18) -
The moral is that either the United States takes care of the heavy lifting, or nobody does.
Academic text (2009) -
In fact, ChatGPT and tools like that will do most of the heavy lifting for you in terms of the information that you need.
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The mechanical engineers do the heavy lifting; they move atoms.
Academic text (2005) -
Laura, thank you very much for organizing this with Stephanie and for doing the heavy lifting of bringing us together.
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After weeks of planning, she finally began the heavy lifting to complete the project on time.
Synonyms
47
4.6
A large difficult task that needs a lot of effort
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3.4
A difficult task that needs a lot of effort
10
5.3
Boring, simple jobs that are necessary and take a lot of time
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5.3
A situation or task that is hard to do
2
6.8
A difficult task that needs a lot of effort
1
5.9
A very large and difficult job that needs a lot of time and effort
1
7.1
Hard to understand or slow to get through
A very hard job that makes your body very tired
Antonyms
How Demanding
Surface Forms
Morphology
The sense 'hard or demanding work' is directly inferable from combining 'heavy' (of great weight or demanding) with 'lifting' (the act of raising or exerting effort); the metaphorical extension from physical weight to difficulty is transparent. This compositional pattern is common cross-linguistically and follows predictable English noun phrase formation, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would likely understand the MWE.
Etymology
The phrase heavy lifting comes from the image of someone carrying very heavy boxes or weights, with heavy meaning large weight and lifting meaning the act of carrying. So when we say someone does the heavy lifting, we mean they do the 'hard work' or take the main responsibility.