pull one's weight

1. 1.

   do one's share in a common task

   “Bob has never pulled his weight, and we all have to work harder to make up for his laziness”

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Questions about pull one's weight

What does pull one's weight mean?

pull one's weight means "do one's share in a common task".

Is pull one's weight a common word?

pull one's weight 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.