Idiom
gravity's pull
Meaning
Stress or pressure of a situation acting upon a person.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The gravity's pull of his new responsibilities feels heavy today.”
“As the deadline approached, she struggled to work under the gravity's pull of her manager's high expectations.”
“Despite his desire for freedom, he found himself unable to escape the gravity's pull of his family's long-standing traditions and expectations.”
Examples
simple
“The gravity's pull of his new responsibilities feels heavy today.”
contextual
“As the deadline approached, she struggled to work under the gravity's pull of her manager's high expectations.”
complex
“Despite his desire for freedom, he found himself unable to escape the gravity's pull of his family's long-standing traditions and expectations.”
Origin
From gravity + -'s + pull, literally the pull of gravity. The noun pull is a common collocation of the word gravity, particularly as the phrasal verb pull down.
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