make heavy weather ofとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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make heavy weather of (三人称単数 現在形 makes heavy weather of, 現在分詞 making heavy weather of, 過去形および過去分詞形 made heavy weather of)

1. (transitive) To overcomplicate (something); to make (things) appear worse than they are.
   • 1982, Richard Dawkins, The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene, Oxford University Press

     Philosophers, possibly with justification, make heavy weather of the concept of causation, but to a working biologist causation is a rather simple statistical concept.

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