English Dictionary

make heavy weather of

動詞

慣用表現

(idiomatic) To overcomplicate things, to make things appear worse than they are.

日本語の意味

物事を不必要に複雑にする / 事態を実際よりも悪く見せる / 手間や苦労を余計にかける

Don't make heavy weather of packing; you can finish in half an hour.

荷造りを大げさにするのはやめて。30分で終わるよ。

意味（1）

(idiomatic) To overcomplicate things, to make things appear worse than they are.

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

makes heavy weather of （ present singular third-person ）

making heavy weather of （ participle present ）

made heavy weather of （ participle past ）

made heavy weather of （ past ）