Damaged label on load? It goes down like this (4,7)

Guardian Cryptic #29484 | 12 Across | 2024-09-10
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

An anagram (‘damaged’) of ‘label on load’. The definition refers to eg “I thought my idea was very reasonable, but when I presented it, it went down like a lead balloon” – lead as the heavy metal.

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