Work & business

Pull your weight

To do your fair share of the work in a group.

Examples

  • Everyone in our flat pulls their weight with the cleaning.
  • If one person doesn't pull their weight, the whole project suffers.
  • I felt guilty because I hadn't pulled my weight on the group presentation.

How to use it

Informal. Change the possessive to match the subject: pull my weight, pull his weight. Often in the negative.