| 单词 | to drag ones slow length along |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto drag one’s slow length along 18. to drag one’s slow length along and variants: to move or progress very slowly, to be unnecessarily drawn out.With allusion to Pope's use in quot. 1711. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > rate of motion > slowness > move or go slowly [verb (intransitive)] creepc1175 lugc1400 to hold (also keep) foot withc1438 crawlc1460 lounge?a1513 slug1565 drawl1566 draggle1577 fodge1581 snail1582 laggerc1620 slagger1622 snail1628 flod1674 delay1690 to drag one’s slow length along1711 soss1711 loiter1728 trail1744 sidle1781 soodle1821 linger1826 ooze1847 slope1851 laggard1864 dawdle1872 tiddle1882 oozle1958 pootle1973 1711 A. Pope Ess. Crit. 22 A needless Alexandrine..That like a wounded Snake, drags its slow Length along. 1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall IV. 192 The slow length of a sickly and desponding host was heavily dragged along the Flaminian way. 1856 N. Brit. Rev. 26 269 Three, four, and five years did cases drag their slow length along. 1868 J. S. Mill Eng. & Ireland 36 This great undertaking must not drag its slow length through generations. 2013 Sunday Tel. (Nexis) 10 Feb. 39 Having spent at least a couple of hours uncomfortably seated in a plane,..you join a queue that drags its slow length along for another mind-numbing period. < as lemmas |
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