Cliche of the Week 8 – Heavy Lifting

From sleek corporate corridors to shadowy political backrooms and sweaty sports stadiums, there's always someone doing the heavy lifting, carrying the workload for the benefit of others.

This catch-all cliche appears in the media about 1200 times a week around the world and is applied to many flavours of news: sport, finance, real estate and politics.

On basketball: "(Dwyane) Wade's role in this can't be overstated. He already brought one title to Miami by doing all the heavy lifting, and now h...