Slow Phrases

Phrases

• 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
• 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)