bear the brunt of

The chancellor announced a near-£70bn increase in public spending in her first Budget in October, of which more than half will come from higher taxes, with businesses set to bear the brunt of the rises.

Mr Gillan says prison officers bear the brunt of the drone deliveries.

And so getting rid of them and making it easier for people to shift spouses like they change their underwear, that’s going to make people happier in the long term,’” Vance said in a video published by Vice, arguing that the children of those failed marriages bear the brunt of the split.

Its chair, Prof Kamila Hawthorne, added that otherwise surgeries would have to look at making redundancies or even potentially closing down, meaning patients would "bear the brunt" of the tax hike.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves decided businesses will bear the brunt of her £40bn total tax rise by increasing the National Insurance rate as well as reducing the threshold at which employers start paying it, to generate £25bn.