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snail's pace
noun
- an extremely slow rate:
The work progresses at a snail's pace.
snail's pace
noun
- a very slow or sluggish speed or rate
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Word History and Origins
Origin of snail's pace1
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Idioms and Phrases
A very slow pace, as in They're making progress with testing the new vaccine, but at a snail's pace . [c. 1400]Discover More
Example Sentences
There, at length, they came at a snails pace, the moonlight shining on their clothes.
At the same time this snails-pace gives one a chance to observe things as he goes along, and there is much to observe.
He was riding at a snails pace and fanning himself with a wide rimmed hat.
The land mail between this and Detroit crawls with snails pace.
It lumbers along lurchingly with stress, at a snails pace; noted of all the world.
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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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