slow off the mark

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slow off the mark

1. Lit. slow in starting or reacting. (Compare this with quick off the mark.) If you are always that slow off the mark you will never win the race. Boy, you were slow off the mark there!

2. Fig. slow-witted. The guy's slow off the mark but very friendly. Yes, I'm afraid Tony is a bit slow off the mark when it comes to trigonometry.

See also: mark, slow

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SLOW STARTERS Manchester United have tradtionally been slow off the mark in the Premier League in recent seasons. HE'S HISTORY; NEW DAWN UNITED FORGET THEIR OLD HERO by The Mirror (London, England) Paddy Power, never usually slow off the mark, are already paying out on the prime minister stepping down by August, and Hills go just 5-4 that Brown resigns by midnight next Saturday. Johnson slashed to evens to be next Labour leader by The Racing Post (London, England) Then, as standards of living begin to rise, they get lazy, apathetic and slow off the mark. We must move faster on global warming by Gulf Daily News (Manama, Bahrain)			slop on slop out slop over slope slope away from slope down slope toward slope up slosh slosh around slosh on slosh over slosh through slouch slouch around slouch behind slouch down slouch over slough off slow slow and steady wins the race slow as molasses in January slow but sure slow down slow going slow off the mark slow on the draw slow on the uptake slow study slow up slower slower and slower slowly sluff slug it out sluice sluice down sluice out slump slump down slump down in slump over slur over slush up sly sly as a fox smack smack down smack in the face smack in the middle smack lips			slow lorises Slow Loud and Bangin' Slow Low-Efficient Daily Dialysis slow march Slow market Slow Markets slow match slow match slow memory slow motion slow motion slow motion Slow Moving and Obsolete Inventory Slow Moving Consumer Goods Slow Moving or Obsolete Stock/Inventory Slow Moving Person/People Slow Moving Software Slow Moving Vehicle slow muscles slow muscles slow muscles slow muscles slow neutron slow neutron Slow Neutron Capture Gamma Slow neutron spectroscopy slow neutrons slow neutrons Slow Non-Isothermal Flows slow nova slow off the mark Slow on the Bottle, Enjoy the Road :-) slow on the draw slow on the uptake slow on the uptake slow on the uptake slow on the uptake slow on the uptake Slow Optical Buffer Slow Oxidative slow pace Slow Pain slow pathway Slow Person in Front of Me Slow Phase Eye Velocity Slow pitch Slow pitch Slow Pitch Softball League Slow Play Slow Positron Implantation Spectroscopy Slow pulse Slow pulse Slow pulse Slow pulse slow ray Slow Rayleigh Fading Channel Slow reacting substance of anaphylaxis slow reactor slow reactors Slow Recovery from Open Channel Block Slow Release

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