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snail's pace
snail's pace n a very slow or sluggish speed or rate snail's′ pace′
n. an extremely slow rate of progress. [1400–50] snail′-paced`, adj. Thesaurussnail's pacenounA very slow rate of speed:crawl, creep.snail's pace
snail's paceA very slow, arduous pace or rate. My research is moving at a snail's pace—every experiment I've tried so far has failed. We're never going to recoup our development costs if the snail's pace of these sales doesn't pick up.See also: pacesnail's paceA very slow pace, as in They're making progress with testing the new vaccine, but at a snail's pace. [c. 1400] See also: paceat a snail's paceVery slowly. The slowness of snails was pointed out about 200 b.c. by the Roman poet Plautus and the term “snail’s pace” in English goes back to about 1400. Relative to its size, however, a snail travels a considerable distance each day, using the undersurface of its muscular foot to propel itself.See also: pacesnail's pace
Synonyms for snail's pacenoun a very slow rate of speedSynonyms |