heavy load
Back-breaking haul
A heavy load is something difficult to carry, move, or bear.
The phrase applies literally to physical weight—cargo, equipment, burdens on the body—but extends naturally to emotional or psychological strain: She's been carrying a heavy load since her mother's diagnosis.
The weight may be work, responsibility, grief, or obligation.
- burdenOppressive weight or duty
- weightMeasure of heaviness
- dead weightInert, burdensome mass
- cargoTransported goods
- haulPull or carry laboriously
weigh a ton · freight · carrying capacity · strain · baggage · pack mule · beast of burden · tonnage · lifting · shoulders · back · struggle · trudge · exhaustion · truck · crate · muscle · sweat
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