weight on shoulders
Crushing mental load
Weight on shoulders describes a burden of responsibility, worry, or emotional strain.
The image comes from carrying a heavy physical load, but the phrase almost always refers to psychological pressure: She felt the weight of the whole project on her shoulders.
When the weight lifts, relief follows: Finishing that conversation took a weight off my shoulders.
- burdenOppressive weight or duty
- heavyOf great mass
- stressPressure, mental or vocal
- stressed outAnxious from excessive demands
- responsibilityState of being answerable
mental load · load · pressure · bearing down · carrying · Atlas · exhaustion · worry · duty · strain · weary · obligation · crushing · tension · fatigue · overwhelmed · bone tired · stooped
- hardshipshardship, adversity, struggle, misfortune, difficulties
- suffering metaphorsdrowning, bottomless pit, chains, cage, trapped
- life lessonslesson learned, moral, lessons learned, life lessons, parable
- metaphorsbroken heart, dead metaphor, mixed metaphor, time is money, extended metaphor
weight on shoulderspeace of mind
State without anxiety
carefree · unburdened · relief · light-hearted · lightness
weight on shouldersunburdened
Freed from a load
off the hook · carefree · free as a bird · no strings attached · free and clear
weight on shouldersspring in one's step
Energetic, bouncy way of walking
walking on air · light on one's feet · head held high · buoyant · floating
weight, weights, weigh, weighs, weighed, weighing, weighty, weightless, weightlessness