make heavy weather

Idioms  

1. see under heavy going.

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Example Sentences

Sufferers were known as "Hayfeverites", a mocking description of wealthy young people eager to make heavy weather of their symptoms.

From BBC • Jun. 30, 2014

The author is so stuffed-to-the-ears with quotable information on his vast array of thobbers that the moderately learned will make heavy weather of his pages if they try to read all.

From Time Magazine Archive

The silly old ship," he muttered, half to himself and half to me, "is trying to make heavy weather of it; but I'll be even with her.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, January 24, 1891 by Various

These light craft make heavy weather of it, but with ordinary caution they are safe enough.

From Down the Rhine Young America in Germany by Optic, Oliver

Immediately our deeply laden boats began to make heavy weather.

From South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition by Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir