weigh someone down—(also: weight someone down)
1. press on a person with a heavy weight:
- Get this bundle off my back; it’s really weighing me down.
2. make smb. very sad; depress a person:
- When an American girl does that, you can guess there’s something “mighty hefty” weighing her down.
weigh someone up —(coll.) form an opinion about a person:
- “I knew too much about her,” she said. “I had weighed her up.”