have a lot on plate

have a lot/enough on your plate

also have your plate full

to have a lot of work to do or a lot of problems to deal with I don't want to burden my daughter with my problems; she's got enough on her plate with her husband in prison. Simon can't take on any more work. He's got his plate full as it is.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Chiyo	chee-yo	Japanese
Manuel	['mænjuel]
Gerard	jə-RAHRD (English), JER-ərd (English), KHAY-rahrt (Dutch), GE-rahrt (Polish)	English, Dutch, Catalan, Polish
Kenneth	KEN-ith (Scottish, English)	Scottish, English, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish
Ganesh	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Kannada, Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Bengali, Nepali
Obed	O-bed (English)	Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek