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English translation: donʼt crawl along (there) like snails / youʼre crawling along like snails
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moving at snail's pace Explanation: or doing things at snail's pace |
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moving at a snail's pace Explanation: . -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 4 mins (2012-12-02 19:02:35 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- ....moving along at a snail's pace, going at a snail's pace -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 8 mins (2012-12-02 19:06:38 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/at a snail's pace |
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as slow as a dead snail/as slow as molasses in January Explanation: * Reference: http://esl-bits.net/idioms/id550.htm Reference: http://esl-bits.net/idioms/id48.htm |
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As slow as snails Explanation: Další přirovnání: As slow as a snail As slow as a tortoise As slow as a wet weekend |
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(hurry up) you are slow as snails Explanation: ... |
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donʼt crawl along (there) like snails / youʼre crawling along like snails Explanation: If you go for ‘at a snailʼs pace’, it needs to have the indefinite article (as Hannah wrote it). This suggestion is a wee bit more exasperated-sounding and perhaps what would be spontaneously said in English as a rebuke — the ‘snailʼs pace’ idiom has always felt to me like something more usually used in written or more formal spoken style. |
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