broad shoulders

The ability or willingness to accept multiple demands and responsibilities. You've got some broad shoulders, kid—I'm so impressed with how you're balancing schoolwork with being captain of the football team and student council president! I know he's a star already, but he needs to have broad shoulders if he's going to play in New York. In the city that never sleeps, the demands on an athlete's time never stop. Our dad has broad shoulders, thank goodness. After Mom died, he raised us as a single parent while working a full-time job.

broad shoulders

If someone has broad shoulders, they are able to take a lot of responsibility and they are not easily upset by criticism. He insisted that he had broad shoulders and was willing to carry on.