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Define: "Heavy lifting"
What HR thinks it means:
The most difficult or demanding part of a task.
What it actually means:
"The actual engineering work that gets glossed over in the executive summary."
Use it in a meeting:
"The offshore team did all the heavy lifting over the weekend, so the project manager could naturally take full credit during the Monday morning sync."
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