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Make heavy weather of

To overcomplicate things, to make things appear worse than they are.

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  1. 1

    To overcomplicate things, to make things appear worse than they are.

    "Philosophers, possibly with justification, make heavy weather of the concept of causation, but to a working biologist causation is a rather simple statistical concept. − Richard Dawkins, The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene, 1982, Oxford University Press"

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