"make heavy weather of" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "made heavy weather of",
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      "form": "made heavy weather of",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "ref": "1982, Richard Dawkins, The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene, Oxford University Press:",
          "text": "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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        "To overcomplicate (something); to make (things) appear worse than they are."
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        "(transitive) To overcomplicate (something); to make (things) appear worse than they are."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "make heavy weather"
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        {
          "word": "make heavy going of"
        }
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      "form": "making heavy weather of",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
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      "form": "made heavy weather of",
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    },
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      "word": "make heavy going of"
    }
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