slow-walk

短语

发音

AU

词形变化

slow-walks 三单 slow-walking 现在分词 slow-walked 过去式 slow-walked 过去分词

别名

slow walk

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To delay a request or command, to drag one's feet, to stall, to obstruct, to drag out a process.

    习语 及物 政治

    many of the men were simply standing around and were purposely ‘slow-walking’ the project […] to stretch out the term of employment.

  2. 1.

    To punish, to chastise.

    及物

词源

Attested since 1973 in Southern dialects of American English; prominent since the late 1990s. Thought by William Safire to derive from a Tennessee term for the walking gait of the Tennessee Walking Horse, which is generally called "flat walk", but sometimes a "slow walk".

来源：wiktionary