snail's pace
English
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editEtymology
editDue to the fact that snails tend to move very slowly.
Noun
edit- (informal) A very slow pace.
- My grandmother drives her car at a snail's pace.
- 1952 July, W. R. Watson, “Sankey Viaduct and Embankment”, in Railway Magazine, page 487:
- He describes the operation thus: "The heavy ram employed to impart the finishing strokes, hoisted up with double purchase and snail's pace to the summit of the Piling Engine, and then falling down like a thunderbolt on the head of the devoted timber, driving it perhaps a single half inch in to the stratum below, is well calculated to put to the test the virtue of patience, while it illustrates the old adage of—slow and sure."
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edita very slow pace
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