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make heavy weather of

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make heavy weather of something/doing something

  (British & Australian)

to take a longer time than necessary to do something He's making heavy weather of writing his report - Ingrid finished hers days ago.

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make heavy weather of

To exaggerate the difficulty of something to be done.

See also: heavy, make, of, weather