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Snail-slow

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. Snail-slow
    as slow as a snail
Etymology

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary A.S. snegl, snægl; Ger. schnecke.

Usage in the news

If you thought snail mail was slow before, you haven't seen anything yet. entrepreneur.com

For a slow moving sea-snail with not much in the way of a personality and a shell that makes a really nice soap dish, it's catastrophic. theatlantic.com

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The space shuttle Endeavour has slowed from a crawl to a snail's pace — and quite often a dead stop — as it makes its final journey through the streets of Los Angeles. fox10tv.com

Think snail mail is too slow . ashingtonpost.com

Usage in literature

We go like snails, like snails that are dying we go so slow. "Love of Life and Other Stories" by Jack London

Once upon the stone he slowed to snail pace, straining his sight to avoid the pockets and holes. "Riders of the Purple Sage" by Zane Grey

If a man turned into this in an endeavor to pass, his dogs would wallow perforce to their bellies and slow down to a snail's pace. "The God of His Fathers" by Jack London

Quite suddenly I saw a very small black object moving with snail-like slowness. "The Last of the Plainsmen" by Zane Grey

You're as slow as a snail. "Washington Square Plays" by Various

After this we went at a pace so slow that any able-bodied snail would have left us standing still. "She and Allan" by H. Rider Haggard

Snail was made the cook, because he was too slow for any other duty except tending the house. "Filipino Popular Tales" by Dean S. Fansler

I took my ease, and crept home at a slow snail's pace. "Hunger" by Knut Hamsun

You're as slow as snails. "Camp and Trail" by Isabel Hornibrook

There are times when it is better to g-g-go slow, as the snail said to the lightning. "The Redemption of David Corson" by Charles Frederic Goss

Usage in poetry
The slow gray slug and snail have trailed
Their slimy silver up and down
The beds where once the moss-rose veiled
Rich beauty; and the mushroom brown
Swells where the lily tossed its crown.