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- All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
- And shining morning face, creeping like a snail unwillingly to school
- As boring as watching paint dry
- As dull as ditchwater
- As exciting as watching grass grow
- As slow as molasses in January
- At a snail's pace
- Behind the beat
- Behind the curve
- Better late than never ( the meaning and origin of this phrase.. )
- Can't Slow Down ( Lionel Richie album )
- Creep like a snail
- Daily grind ( the daily routine of a dull or boring job )
- Day late and a dollar short
- Death is nature's way of telling you to slow down
- Don't hold your breath
- Drag your feet
- Dragging on
- Drip feed
- Fashionably late
- Feet of clay
- Get behind in your work
- Get stupid
- Hit by the stupid stick
- Hit the brakes
- Hit the buffers
- Hot chocolate, drinking chocolate - the late, late drink ( Cadbury's Drinking Chocolate advertising slogan )
- I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking ( the opening line of Goodbye To Berlin )
- I'm with stupid
- If you keep late hours for Society's sake, Bromo-Seltzer will cure that headache ( Bromo-Seltzer advertising slogan )
- In dribs and drabs
- Inch along
- Inch by inch
- It's never too late
- It's never too late to learn
- It's the economy stupid ( Political slogan )
- Keep it simple stupid
- Labour intensive
- Late bloomer
- Late developer
- Late hour
- Late in the day
- Late in the game
- Late lamented
- Lazy bones
- Learning difficulties
- Long drawn out
- Make haste slowly
- Manana is good enough for me
- Never a dull moment
- Off the pace
- Painfully slow
- Passive aggressive
- Passive smoking
- Play from the tips
- Round the houses
- Running late
- See You Late Alligator ( Bill Haley song )
- Sleepy head
- Slow burn
- Slow but sure
- Slow motion
- Slow on the uptake
- Slow slow quick quick slow
- Slowly but surely
- Snail mail
- Somethin' Stupid ( Frank Sinatra song )
- Stupid is as stupid does
- Terminally stupid
- The Chipmunk Song ( Christmas Don't Be Late ) ( The Chipmunks and David Seville song )
- The King of Late Night Television ( Nickname of Jack Paar )
- The Lazy Song ( Bruno Mars song )
- The late unpleasantness
- The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid ( Jane Austen quotation )
- The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
- Till the cows come home
- To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people! ( line from the movie A Fish Called Wanda )
- Tonight's top ten list ( A catchphrase from David Letterman In The Late Show )
- Too little, too late
- Two steps forward and one step back
- Very interesting, but stupid ( A catchphrase from Rowan and Martin's Laugh In )
- Victory won't wait for the nation that's late ( Big Ben Clocks advertising slogan )
- You stupid boy! ( A catchphrase from Dad's Army )