VOCABULARY - IDIOMS

Heavy weather

Meaning:

The phrase heavy weather refers to considerable difficulty.

Examples:

  • Mr President, Europe finds itself in economically heavy weather.
  • Rather heavy weather to send him aloft, isn't it?
  • With this heavy weather, I fell asleep.
  • Prepare the ship for heavy weather, if you please.
  • The ideal spot and the right season for heavy weather training.
  • Robert, don't make such heavy weather of it.
  • Jack, I see you'll be flying into heavy weather.
  • We have made as heavy weather of this as when discussing the constitution.
  • You making heavy weather of it?
  • Both we and the Council have traditionally made heavy weather of this issue.