An oar that is worked with great effort.
2019, Kisor v. Wilkie (U.S. Supreme Court No. 18-15), Justice Kagan:
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(chiefly, US, figurative, by extension) The part of a task that requires the greatest effort to achieve.
: And so too, when new issues demanding new policy calls come up within that scheme, Congress presumably wants the same agency, rather than any court, to take the laboring oar.
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