heavy lifting

1. 1.

   difficult work

   “the boss hoped the plan would succeed but he wasn't willing to do the heavy lifting”

   Broaderwork

   colloquialism

Questions about heavy lifting

What does heavy lifting mean?

heavy lifting means "difficult work".

Is heavy lifting a common word?

heavy lifting is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.