make heavy weather

make heavy weather
1) мор. испытывать сильную качку
2) (of или out of smth.) усложнять что-л.; ≈ сгущать краски

We needn't make heavy weather of it. If the boy hates being there, or Nick is unpleasant to him, we'll move him back to the house. (I. Murdoch, ‘The Bell’, ch. IV) — Не стоит усложнять вопрос. Если мальчику там не понравится или если Ник будет к нему плохо относиться, мы возьмем его домой.

All that any of us wished to say was, weren't we making too heavy weather of it? The Committee had been obliged to take action: that was accepted. But wasn't the penalty... too severe? (C. P. Snow, ‘The Sleep of Reason’, ch. 3) — Все члены дисциплинарной комиссии задавали себе вопрос: а не переусердствовали ли они? Комиссия была вынуждена принять меры. С этим все были согласны. Но не было ли наказание... слишком суровым?


Большой англо-русский фразеологический словарь. - М.: «Русский язык-Медиа».. 2006.

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  • make heavy weather of — (something/doing something) British & Australian to take a longer time than necessary to do something. He s making heavy weather of writing his report, Ingrid finished hers days ago …   New idioms dictionary

  • make heavy weather of something — phrase to make a situation or job more difficult than it really is Thesaurus: to cause problems for yourselfsynonym Main entry: heavy * * * make heavy ˈweather of sth idiom to seem to find sth more difficult or complicated than it needs to be …   Useful english dictionary

  • make heavy weather of something — make heavy weather of (something/doing something) British & Australian to take a longer time than necessary to do something. He s making heavy weather of writing his report, Ingrid finished hers days ago …   New idioms dictionary

  • make heavy weather of doing something — make heavy weather of (something/doing something) British & Australian to take a longer time than necessary to do something. He s making heavy weather of writing his report, Ingrid finished hers days ago …   New idioms dictionary

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  • make heavy weather of — informal have unnecessary difficulty in dealing with (a task or problem). [from the naut. phr. make good or bad weather of it, referring to a ship in a storm.] → weather …   English new terms dictionary

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