| slow burn | |
| —n | |
| a steadily penetrating show of anger or contempt | |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
slow burn definition
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slow burn
Slowly increasing anger. It is often put as do a slow burn, meaning "gradually grow angrier," as in I did a slow burn when he kept me waiting for three hours. The burn in this idiom comes from burn up in the sense of "make furious." The term was first cited in 1938 and was closely associated with co-median Edgar Kennedy.