snail's pace

English

Alternative forms

• snail pace

Etymology

snail's + pace

Noun

snail's pace

1. (informal) A very slow pace.

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

Related terms

• slow as molasses
• slow as molasses in January
• slow as a snail

Translations

a very slow pace

• Danish: sneglefart c
• Dutch: slakkengang (nl)
• Finnish: etanan vauhti
• German: Schneckentempo (de) n
• Italian: passo di lumaca m
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• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sneglefart m

• Russian: черепаший темп m /tortoise pace/
• Swedish: snigelfart c

Anagrams

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