Usually means: Difficult to progress or endure.
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  1. heavy going: Merriam-Webster
  2. heavy going: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. heavy going: Collins English Dictionary
  4. heavy going: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. heavy going: Wiktionary
  6. heavy going: Dictionary.com
  7. heavy-going: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  8. heavy going: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. heavy going: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (heavy going)

noun:  (of horse racing) Going (i.e. conditions) that are wet and muddy (difficult to gallop on)
noun:  (idiomatic) Something that is boring; difficult to make progress on, or tedious

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