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making heavy weather of

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

Meaning of make heavy weather of

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To overcomplicate (something); to make (things) appear worse than they are.
    • Philosophers, possibly with justification, make heavy weather of the concept of causation, but to a working biologist causation is a rather simple statistical concept.1982, Richard Dawkins, The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene, Oxford University Press

Questions about making heavy weather of

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

Words near making heavy weather of in the dictionary

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

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