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idioma heavy cross to bearused about a problem that makes someone very unhappy or worried for a long time:Her husband's illness had been a heavy cross to bear.Although he accepted his fate, he found it a heavy cross to bear.Note The cross in this idiom is two pieces of wood in the shape of a 'T' which were used as a structure on which to crucify someone (=kill someone by nailing them to a cross as a punishment). The person being crucified often had to carry or 'bear' their own cross to the place where they would die.
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