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making heavy weather

making heavy weather is the present participle of make heavy weather.

Meaning of make heavy weather

Verb

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

  1. (idiomatic) To make progress only with difficulty.

Questions about making heavy weather

What is making heavy weather the present participle of?
Making heavy weather is the present participle of make heavy weather.

Words near making heavy weather in the dictionary

  1. making hay while the sun shines
  2. making head against
  3. making head or tail of
  4. making headway
  5. making heavy going of
  6. making heavy weather
  7. making heavy weather of
  8. making history
  9. making interesting
  10. making into
  11. making it

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