carry weight

Definitions

1. 1

   To be handicapped by an extra burden, as when one rides or runs.

2. 2

   To have influence.

   • Your excuses don't carry weight with me.
   • Our motion did not carry much weight with the judge.
   • When M. Paladilhe was elected my friends said to me: 'Never mind; later on he'll vote for you, Maestro, and his support will carry a lot of weight'. I never had his vote, nor his support, nor his weight.

The neighborhood

• neighborcarry one's weight