Meaning
Very slowly.
Examples
I’m never coming to this restaurant again. They serve the food at a snail’s pace.
I recommend you bring a book when you go to the post office. It’s the holidays and they always work at a snail’s pace this time of year.
Traffic was moving at a snail’s pace so I arrived 45 minutes late for work.
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
What does the idiom ‘At a snail’s pace’ mean?
The idiom ‘At a snail’s pace’ means “to deal with a difficult situation without being harmed or damaged”
How do you use ‘At a snail’s pace’ in a sentence?
Example usage of idiom ‘At a snail’s pace’: Newspapers have weathered the storm of online information by providing news online themselves.