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pull your weight
USUK
to do your fair share of the work in a group
Usually negative: 'someone isn't pulling their weight'. 'Your' changes to his, her, their.
In context
One person in our group isn't pulling his weight, so the rest of us are doing everything.
If you don't pull your weight at work, your colleagues will soon notice.
More idioms about work
- a nine-to-five joba regular office job with fixed hours, usually from about 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
- bite off more than you can chewto try to do more than you are able to manage
- call it a dayto decide to stop working, usually because you have done enough for now
- cut cornersto do something quickly or cheaply by skipping steps, often lowering quality or safety
- drop the ballto make a mistake by forgetting or failing to do something you were responsible for