Word.ws English Dictionary

made heavy going of

made heavy going of is the simple past and past participle of make heavy going of.

Meaning of make heavy going of

Verb

make heavy going of (third-person singular simple present makes heavy going of, present participle making heavy going of, simple past and past participle made heavy going of)

  1. (idiomatic) to make heavy weather of
    • England have made heavy going of Group H but they have handled the pressures of their last two games admirably and playing at their own stadium no longer appears to fill with them with apprehension.2013 October 15, Daniel Taylor, The Guardian

Questions about made heavy going of

What is made heavy going of the simple past and past participle of?
Made heavy going of is the simple past and past participle of make heavy going of.

Words near made heavy going of in the dictionary

  1. made hay
  2. made hay while the sun shone
  3. made head against
  4. made head or tail of
  5. made headway
  6. made heavy going of
  7. made heavy weather
  8. made heavy weather of
  9. made history
  10. made in China
  11. made in Japan

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: made heavy going of (page history and authors); make heavy going of (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “made heavy going of.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/made_heavy_going_of. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.