heavy weather

Idioms In English

What Does “heavy weather” mean?

Definition:

The phrase heavy weather refers to considerable difficulty.

The expression alludes to bad weather at sea.

An variant of this idiom is:

heavy going

See a related idiom:

make heavy weather of something

Example(s)

1. Because of the recession, I think it’s going to be heavy weather for all of us.

2. My daughter found mathematics heavy going.

This idiom is in the weather category.
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