snail's pace

English

Alternative forms

• snail pace

Etymology

Due to the fact that snails tend to move very slowly.

Noun

snail's pace

1. (informal) A very slow pace.

   My grandmother drives her car at a snail's pace.

Related terms

• slow as molasses
• slow as molasses in January
• slow as a snail
• walking pace

Translations

a very slow pace

• Afrikaans: slakkepas
• Catalan: pas de tortuga m (literally “pace of a tortoise”), pas de bou m (literally “pace of a cow”)
• Danish: sneglefart c
• Dutch: slakkengang (nl)
• Faroese: snigilsferð
• Finnish: etanan vauhti
• French: à pas de tortue (fr) (literally “pace of a tortoise”)
• Galician: a paso de tartaruga
• German: Schneckentempo (de) n
• Icelandic: hægagangur (is) m
• Irish: teacht an tseilide m
• Italian: passo di lumaca m
• Japanese: 牛歩 (ja) (gyūho, literally “pace of a cow”)
• Korean: 달팽이 걸음 (dalpaeng'i georeum)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sneglefart m

  Nynorsk: sniglefart

• Polish: żółwim krokiem (pl) (adverb)
• Russian: черепаший темп m (čerepašij temp, literally “pace of a tortoise”)
• Spanish: a paso de tortuga (literally “pace of a tortoise”)
• Swedish: snigelfart (sv) c

Anagrams

• Pascalines, Plaisances, Plasencias, apsaclines, plaisances, snail paces, spalacines