heavy yokes, expenses, undertakings, trials, news, etc.

Sent hither by my Husband to impart the heavy news.

1998, Stanley George Clayton, ""Menstruation" in Encyclopedia Britannica
The ovarian response to gonadotropic hormones may be erratic at first, so that irregular or heavy bleeding sometimes occurs

He was a heavy sleeper, a heavy eater and a heavy smoker – certainly not an ideal husband.

Watch for the signs of fatigue, including yawning, blinking and heavy eyes.

Cheese-stuffed sausage is too heavy to eat before exercising.

[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.

it was a heavy storm; a heavy slumber in bed; a heavy punch

his eyes were heavy with sleep; she was heavy with child

Seating himselfe within a darkesome cave, / (Such places heavy Saturnists doe crave,) / Where yet the gladsome day was never seene […]

a heavy gait, looks, manners, style, etc.

The very low prices of brandy, and the continuance of a heavy market for such a length of time, have begun to attract buyers; […]

The oil market is heavy, each day bringing along further supplies of shares from people who have not tired of the long-continued decline in the market.

Olive: What was it - booze? Barney: Yeh. Been hitting it pretty heavy.

With his wrinkled, uneven face, the actor always seemed to play the heavy in films.

A fight started outside the bar but the heavies came out and stopped it.

The comment may be offered here that the 'heavies' have been the Design Award's principal scorers, both in the overall bronze plaque days and, since, in the Daily/Sunday Class 1.

Reviewers in the heavies aim to impress with the depth of their knowledge and appreciation.

I read five heavies, maybe transports or tankers...could be bombers.

A 76 Squadron pilot who later completed a second tour on Mosquitoes said that his colleagues on the light bombers “simply could never understand how awful being on heavies was.”

They piled their goods on the donkey's back, heavying up an already backbreaking load.

The union was well known for the methods it used to heavy many businesses.

[…]the Prime Minister sought to evade the simple fact that he heavied Mr Reid to get rid of Dr Armstrong.

2001, Finola Moorhead, Darkness More Visible, Spinifex Press, Australia, page 557,
But he is on the wrong horse, heavying me. My phone′s tapped. Well, he won′t find anything.

2005, David Clune, Ken Turner (editors), The Premiers of New South Wales, 1856-2005, Volume 3: 1901-2005, page 421,
But the next two days of the Conference also produced some very visible lobbying for the succession and apparent heavying of contenders like Brereton, Anderson and Mulock - much of it caught on television.

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