pull your weight

pull your weight
Pull your weight
If someone is not pulling their weight, they aren't making enough effort, especially in group work.

The small dictionary of idiomes. 2014.

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  • pull your weight — pull/carry/your weight phrase to do your share of work He wasn’t pulling his weight, so he had to go. Thesaurus: to work hardsynonym Main entry: weight * * * pull your ˈweight …   Useful english dictionary

  • pull your weight — pull (your) weight to do your fair share of work. In a busy restaurant, everyone has to pull their weight …   New idioms dictionary

  • pull your weight — ► to work as hard as other people or as hard as expected and needed: »Everyone is expected to pull their weight on this project. Main Entry: ↑pull …   Financial and business terms

  • pull your weight — do your job, do your share of the work    If we all pull our weight do our share we can achieve our goals …   English idioms

  • pull your weight —    If someone is not pulling their weight, they aren t making enough effort, especially in group work.   (Dorking School Dictionary)    ***    To say that somebody pulls their weight means that they do their fair share of the work.     It s great …   English Idioms & idiomatic expressions

  • Pull your weight —   If someone is not pulling their weight, they aren t making enough effort, especially in group work …   Dictionary of English idioms

  • pull your own weight — to do the things that you should be doing as part of a group of people who are working together You have to pull your own weight around here if you want to stay. • • • Main Entry: ↑weight …   Useful english dictionary

  • carry your weight — pull/carry/your weight phrase to do your share of work He wasn’t pulling his weight, so he had to go. Thesaurus: to work hardsynonym Main entry: weight …   Useful english dictionary

  • pull weight — pull (your) weight to do your fair share of work. In a busy restaurant, everyone has to pull their weight …   New idioms dictionary

  • pull — 1 /pUl/ verb 1 MOVE STH TOWARDS YOU (I, T) to use your hands to make something move towards you or in the direction that you are moving: Help me move the piano; you push and I ll pull. | pull sth: I pulled the handle and it just snapped off! |… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

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