КНИГИ НА АНГЛИЙСКИЙ ЯЗЫКЕ, ИМЕЮЩЕЕ ОТНОШЕНИЕ К СЛОВУ «MAKE HEAVY WEATHER OF SOMETHING»
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Chambers Universal Learners' Dictionary
... You should keep a weather eye on him - I don't trust him. make heavy weather
of (something) to find it very (often unnecessarily) difficult to do (something) : He
made heavy weather of ( climbing) the last few hundred feet of the mountain; ...
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Sterling Dictionary
of Idioms
HEAVY a heavy hand harsh or firm control He manages the team with a heavy
hand. make heavy weather of something make a task more difficult than it really
is She made a heavy weather of the task given to her. heavy going rather difficult
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Chabers 21st Century Dictionary
make heavy weather of something to make its progress unnecessarily slow and
difficult. • under the weather colloa not in good health; slighdy unwell. © Anglo-
Saxon weder. weatherbeaten and weather-worn o- ad/ 1 said of the skin or face:
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Chambers concise dictionary
keep a weather eye open to keep alert for developments, make heavy weather of
something to make its progress unnecessarily slow and difficult, under the
weather colloq not in good health; slightly unwell. weatherbeaten or weather-
worn ...
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The Wordsworth Dictionary
of Idioms
... make hay while the sun shines see hay. make heavy weather of (something)
see heavy. make it (in/) to be successful: We 've made it at last — our products
are selling all over the world. make it up (in/) to become friends again after a
quarrel: ...
Elizabeth McLaren Kirkpatrick, C. M. Schwarz, 1993
... potatoes. make eyes at see eye. make good see good. make hay while the sun
shines see hay. make heavy weather of (something) see heavy. make it (in/) to be
successful: We've made it at last — our products are selling all over the world.
You use to make heavy weather of something when someone makes a task look
more difficult than it actually is: You are making a heavy weather of it. You can
solve this problem easily if you use algebra. f. Running with the hare and hunting
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Advances in Written Text Analysis
... and evaluation of that situation. Vivid idioms such as lose one's bottle, breathe
down someone's neck and make heavy weather of something use material
processes as metaphors for relational ones, and others such as get hold of the ...
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Comprehensive English-Hindi dictionary:
... 3R^T, ^tTR, 3^RTR, cpTlt I Make heavy weather of something, find it
troublesome, trying, difficult twf WJR <MT ^1", 3TTCT TpTST 3flf^ W\[ I adj. —
Weather beaten, bearing marks or signs which come from exposure to the sun,
wind, rain etc.
Bholānātha Tivārī, Amaranātha Kapūra, Viśvaprakāśa Gupta, 1998
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General Knowledge
of English Literature
To make heavy weather of something—to take excessive pains overa relatively
simple task, to exaggerate its difficulties. Mud A stickinthemud—someone without
initiative who never takes a chance. E.g., My husbandhas been working as clerk
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