Usually means: Struggle unnecessarily with simple task.
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  1. make heavy weather of: Merriam-Webster
  2. make heavy weather of: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. make heavy weather of: Wiktionary
  4. make heavy weather of: Dictionary.com
  5. make heavy weather of: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (make heavy weather of)

verb:  (transitive) To overcomplicate (something); to make (things) appear worse than they are.

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