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heavy lifting

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heavy lifting
n. Slang
Serious or difficult activities or work: "Attention is shifting to the fall Presidential race, and with only seven months left in office, Reagan won't be doing any heavy lifting" Business Week.
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Noun1.heavy liftingheavy lifting - difficult work; "the boss hoped the plan would succeed but he wasn't willing to do the heavy lifting"
work - activity directed toward making or doing something; "she checked several points needing further work"
colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech
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In both cases we are reminded that if we expect others to do our heavy lifting for us, we can expect to be disappointed.
LGBT DIY by Frame, Robert / The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
Untangling and interpreting Gaghan's knotty web of tales about burnt-out CIA agents, greedy oil tycoons, and cynical Washington operatives takes some heavy lifting, but so does citizenship, and if the complexity of plotlines in Syriana has us wanting to throw up our hands in confusion and surrender, Gaghan and Clooney's scathing view of the all-too-human politicos and CEOs normally entrusted to make these hard choices for the rest of us is enough to make anyone sign up for Citizenship 101.
Syriana by McCormick, Patrick / U.S. Catholic
THE BY-THE-NUMBERS thriller ``Firewall'' could be viewed as Harrison Ford's way of showing us that he's still spry enough to do the heavy lifting that a fourth ``Indiana Jones'' movie would require.
'FIREWALL' GIVES FORD GOOD REASON TO LOOK CONCERNED by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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