Emotions & feelings
a weight off your shoulders
a feeling of relief
If something is a weight off your shoulders, it makes you feel relieved because a worry or responsibility has ended.
Hear it in real life
Have you heard back from the bank?
Yes, and it was a weight off my shoulders.
Getting the repairs finished was a real weight off my shoulders.
The mistake everyone makes
Not: It was a weight out of my shoulders.
Say: It was a weight off my shoulders.
The idiom uses "off your shoulders" to show that the burden has been lifted; "out of your shoulders" is not the fixed phrase.
Build it
How it fits in a sentence.
be a weight off my shoulders; be a weight off your shoulders
Your turn: say it out loud
Getting the repairs finished was a real weight off my shoulders.
Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.
a weight off your shoulders
a feeling of relief
“Getting the repairs finished was a real weight off my shoulders.”
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