take a load off

After a tiring rehearsal, she asked a friend if she could take a load off in his car, hopefully get a nap in.

“It seems to me,” he wrote, “that they will take a load off men’s minds as great as the load that printing took off men’s writing: a great burden lifted.”

Gleeson is the older pro who’d like to take a load off.

The Blackstone Street pub draws inspiration from a traditional marketplace pub in Cork City, Ireland, as a place for travelers to stop in and take a load off.

The Blackstone Street pub draws inspiration from a traditional marketplace pub in Cork City, Ireland, as a place for travelers to stop in and take a load off.