1. When you're trying to take a dump while on the phone, you claim you're "lifting something heavy" in order to explain the grunting.
2. This phrase can also be used as a euphemism for that act in other situations.
1. MAN 1: (grunting)
MAN 2: "Dude, are you shitting while we're on the phone?"
MAN 1: "No, I'm just lifting something heavy."
2. MAN 1: "Where are you going?"
MAN 2: "I'll be back in a few minutes. I have to lift something heavy."
The other man keeping a wife occupied and happy while her husband is away on business. She stays in the marriage because her emotional needs are fulfilled by the "heavy lifter", and her financial needs are fulfilled by her husband. The "heavy lifter" isn't purely a sex partner, he provides her with her emotional needs as well. The relationship is more than a physical arrangement. Emotions are involved.
Her husband is out of the country for another month; it's time for the heavy lifter to come around.
She feels lonely without her rich husband around. She needs her heavy lifter.
I heard she's been married for so long only because she had a heavy lifter.
A: "Her husband is always away on business. I wonder how she keeps it together?"
B: "I hear she has a heavy lifter keeping her happy while he is away"
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)