heavy lifting

heavy lifting

Any serious, difficult, or arduous work or activities. I'm only the assistant manager, but I'm the one who does all the heavy lifting in the company. Trailing in the polls, the candidate is going to have to do some very heavy lifting if she is to have a hope of winning the election.
See also: heavy, lift
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • be in it for
  • away from it all
  • be out of (one's) head
  • be at a disadvantage
  • at a disadvantage
  • address (one's) comments to (someone or something)
  • address comments or remarks to
  • address (one's) remarks to (someone or something)
  • at the point of (doing something)
  • be more than (something)
References in periodicals archive
On the contract win, Martijn Kuipers, the managing director of Mammoet Middle East and Africa, said: "We are very pleased that Limak Insaat has selected us as its heavy lifting partner and are proud to be involved in such a prestigious project that contributes to the development of the country's economy."
These new offices will allow Mammoet to provide more localised support in the emirate and sultanate and better support its clients with its offering of specialist services in engineered heavy lifting and transport in the region.
HUISMAN, the Dutch specialist in heavy lifting, pipelay and drilling equipment, has designed and manufactured the drilling tower and related pipe, riser and blowout preventer (BOP) handling equipment for the first Shell/Frontier Bully drill ship which was recently shipped from the Huisman quay in Schiedam to the Keppel Shipyard in Singapore.
NORDIC BUSINESS REPORT-2 April 2007-Norway's TTS Marine ASA wins heavy lifting technology order from Australian Submarine Corporation(C)1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com
What appears at first glance to be 15 chapters of heavy lifting fly right by.
The likes of Liberace, Paul Lynde, and Rock Hudson, to name but three, who Hill live in infamy for their duplicity to themselves and their refusal to be of any assistance during the early years when many among us were doing the "heavy lifting" and literally placing ourselves in harm's way in many instances.
"The Sun Blade 1000 workstation is designed to meet the rigorous demands required by the compute-intensive applications of technical computing as well as the heavy lifting necessary for high quality 3D graphics applications," said Fred Kohout, director of marketing, technical market products, Sun Microsystems.
Mammoet, a heavy lifting and transport specialist, said it has successfully loaded out the first batch of jackets for East Anglia One offshore wind farm project in the North Sea, England from UAE-based Lamprell Energy's factories across the emirates.
"Sarens Nass Middle East's (SNME) long term endeavour with Saudi Aramco, the world's largest oil company, will surely enhance our reputation for excellence and total commitment as a leading provider of integrated crane services and heavy lifting solutions in the Middle East," said Masroor Saeed Malik, general manager of SNME.
NORDIC BUSINESS REPORT-15 March 2006-TTS Marine ASA receives Italian order for heavy lifting systems(C)1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com
"SNME's long-term endeavour with Saudi Aramco, the world's largest oil company, will surely enhance our reputation for excellence and total commitment as a leading provider of integrated crane services and heavy lifting solutions in the Middle East," said SNME general manager Masroor Saeed Malik.
NORDIC BUSINESS REPORT-18 March 2002-TTS Technology ASA secures NOK80m contract for heavy lifting technology (C)1994-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com