heavy lifting

That's what I call the heavy-lifting part of the problem, and that's really where the term genetic caching comes into play.

2003 March 18, John Howard, speech to the Australian Parliament Alliances are two-way processes and, where we are in agreement, we should not leave it to the United States to do all of the heavy lifting just because they are the world’s superpower.

At home, I told Mo I'd packed it in as Velvet's tutor. "Why?" she said. "Because she's an unappreciative little brat," I said. "I'm sick of her rudeness, and I'm sick of doing all the heavy lifting with this 'buddy' thing."

Richard DeLongpre: Well, that went well. Come here, you. Jeremy DeLongpre: Oh, I'm really exhausted. Richard: That's okay, I'll do the heavy lifting.