Add_up_to vs Carry_weight - What's the difference?
add_up_to | carry_weight | Related terms |
To have a particular effect.
To be handicapped by an extra burden, as when one rides or runs.
To have influence.
* 1948 Rollo H. Myers, Erik Satie, D. Dobson, p31
* 2002 Elizabeth Moynihan, Destiny's Whisper, Writers Club Press, p376
* 2010 Gordon Ryan, American Voices: State of Rebellion, p247
Add_up_to is a related term of carry_weight.
As verbs the difference between add_up_to and carry_weight
is that add_up_to is to have a particular effect while carry_weight is to be handicapped by an extra burden, as when one rides or runs.add_up_to
English
Verb
- Increasing prices and frozen wages add up to hardship for the poorer families.
carry_weight
English
Verb
(head)- Your excuses don't carry weight with me.
- 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.
- Manning Senior carries a lot of weight around here, he has a lot of friends ; a lot of professional clout and can obviously get things done just barely within the lines of legality.
- A recommendation from him carries a lot of weight around here.