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make heavy weather of

The correct spelling is make heavy weather of.

How to pronounce make heavy weather of

verb

Say it like: Mak-e h-eev-ee -wee-the-r o-f

The correct spelling is make heavy weather of. To overcomplicate things, to make things appear worse than they are. For example: "Philosophers, possibly with justification, make heavy weather of the concept of causation, but to a working biologist causation is a rather simple statistical concept. − Richard Dawkins, The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene, 1982, Oxford University Press"

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Philosophers, possibly with justification, make heavy weather of the concept of causation, but to a working biologist causation is a rather simple statistical concept. − Richard Dawkins, The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene, 1982, Oxford University Press

Definition

verb

  1. 1.To overcomplicate things, to make things appear worse than they are.

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