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語源

Due to the fact that snails move very slowly.

名詞

snail's pace

1. (informal, idiomatic) A frustratingly slow rate of speed.

   My grandmother drives her car at a snail's pace.

   • 1952 July, W. R. Watson, “Sankey Viaduct and Embankment”, in Railway Magazine, page 487:

     He describes the operation thus: "The heavy ram employed to impart the finishing strokes, hoisted up with double purchase and snail's pace to the summit of the Piling Engine, and then falling down like a thunderbolt on the head of the devoted timber, driving it perhaps a single half inch in to the stratum below, is well calculated to put to the test the virtue of patience, while it illustrates the old adage of—slow and sure."

使用する際の注意点

• Generally restricted to the phrase at a snail's pace.

関連する語

アナグラム

• Pascalines, Plaisances, Plasencias, apsaclines, plaisances, snail paces, spalacines