Usually means: Weigh down with oppressive burden.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (hang heavy)

▸ verb:  (idiomatic) Of time or a time period: to seem to pass slowly; to crawl.

Similar:
wear, fly with leaden wings, linger out, drag on, hang, slug, trudge, hover, slob, tick on, more...

Opposite:
float, levitate, hover, suspend, glide

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Similar:
wear, fly with leaden wings, linger out, drag on, hang, slug, trudge, hover, slob, tick on, more...

Opposite:
float, levitate, hover, suspend, glide



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