| 单词 | snail's pace |
| 释义 | > as lemmassnail's pace b. snail's gallop, snail's pace, an excessively slow or tardy pace, rate of progress or motion, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > rate of motion > slowness > [noun] > slow movement or progress > a slow pace snail's pacea1400 tortoise-pace1690 snail's gallop1707 a1400–50 Alexander 4095 Þan snyȝes þar, out of þat snyth hill as with a snayles pas, A burly best. 1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Testudineus gradus, a slowe pase: a snayles pase. 1707 J. Stevens tr. F. de Quevedo Comical Wks. (1709) 398 A Physician riding along on his Mule, a Snails Gallop. 1791 ‘G. Gambado’ Ann. Horsemanship iv. 19 Neither whip nor spur can get him out of a snail's gallop. 1793 F. Burney Lett. 12 Sept. That snail's pace with which business is done by letters. 1816 Sporting Mag. 47 32 Every thing short of eight miles per hour is accounted snail's pace. 1843 G. Borrow Bible in Spain I. xvi. 331 The snail's pace at which we were proceeding. 1901 Scotsman 5 Nov. 6/8 For a time they were able to get along at a snail's gallop, men leading the horses with torches and lanterns. < as lemmas |
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