On a motorway or freeway, theslow lane is the lane for vehicles which are moving more slowly than the other vehicles.
2. singular noun
If you say that a person, country, or company is in theslow lane, you mean that they are not progressing as fast as other people, countries, or companies ina particular area of activity.
Meanwhile, the economy plods along on two tracks - the express lane for big companies,the slow lane for smaller ones.
If they are wrong, both of them will end up in the corporate slow lane.
Many people are comfortable with life in the slow lane.
slow lane in British English
(sləʊ leɪn)
noun
1.
the lane for vehicles which are moving more slowly than the other vehicles, so that faster vehicles can overtake: in countries where vehicles drive on the left-hand side of the road, this is the (far) left lane; in countries where vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, this is the (far) right lane
The Mercedes pulled into the slow lane a hundred yards ahead of her.
We crawled along in the slow lane.
The Volvo veered from the fast lane to the slow lane.
2.
a situation in which somebody/something is not progressing as fast as other people, countries etc in a particular area of activity
If they are wrong, both of them will end up in the corporate slow lane.
Many people are comfortable with life in the slow lane.
The economy is stuck in the slow lane.
Examples of 'slow lane' in a sentence
slow lane
Now it is back to business, although not to a life in the slow lane.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
I know why more and more drivers do not utilise the slow lane on the motorway.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
LIFE in the slow lane has put the brakes on earnings.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
But by the end of my training I had gone from the slow lane to the fast lane.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Why was I driving in the slow lane of the motorway Simple.