Meaning of snail's pace | Babel Free

Definitions

A frustratingly slow rate of speed.

idiomatic, informal

Equivalents

Examples

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

“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."”

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