load off one's mind, a

Relief from a mental burden or anxiety, as in Good news about the baby took a load off my mind. This expression uses load in the sense of "a figurative burden." [Mid-1800s]

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Agnew	['ægnju:]
Ravi	RAH-vee (Hinduism)	Hinduism, Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Odia, Gujarati, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Nepali
Antonio	ahn-TO-nyo (Spanish, Italian)	Spanish, Italian, Croatian
Karl	KAHRL (German, Danish, English, Finnish)	German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, English, Finnish, Ancient Germanic
Hadrian	HAY-dree-ən (English)	History
Hudde	-	Medieval English