- lighten the load
- lighten (someone's)/the load
to make a difficult or upsetting situation easier to deal with.
Anyway, we'll be getting a temp in next month to do some of this work so that should lighten your load.
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lighten the load
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lighten load — lighten (your) load to make something easier for you to deal with. Every kind of helper, from eye doctors to massage therapists, volunteered time to lighten the rescue workers load … New idioms dictionary
