What's a Load off?
To Allow Someone to Stop Worrying: to Make Someone Feel Relieved. What Does It Mean to Take a Load off? Chiefly Us, Informal. : to Sit Down and Relax You...
: to allow someone to stop worrying : to make someone feel relieved.
What does it mean to take a load off?
chiefly US, informal. : to sit down and relax You look tired. Come in and take a load off.
Where does take a load off come from?
Sit down, relax, as in I wish you'd take some time and take the load off. A shortening of take the load off one's feet, this colloquial phrase dates from about 1940. It is sometimes put as take a load off.
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