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foot-dragging

/foot-drag-ing/US // ˈfʊtˌdræg ɪŋ //

拖拖拉拉的,拖拖拉拉,拖后腿,拖拖拉拉的工作

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : reluctance or failure to proceed or act promptly.

Examples

  • Together, they crossed over the International Bridges on foot into Juarez to conduct some business.

  • In the classic skillset of piloting, mental acuity, and its coordination with hand and foot movements, is equally vital.

  • Wearing the right foot of a chicken was considered good luck.

  • “The office was always dragging their feet, not taking action on things Morris reported,” Zertuche said in an interview.

  • It made sense with so many suspects at hand, less so with the tower entrance separated from them by a forty foot wall.

  • The bride elect rushes up to him, and so they both step down to the foot-lights.

  • I find myself chained to the foot of a woman, my noble Cornelia would despise!

  • We had now approached closely to the foot of the mountain-ranges, and their lofty summits were high above us in mid-air.

  • A few moments afterward he was seen dragging his own trunk ashore, while Mr. Hitchcock finished his story on the boiler deck.

  • We see the whole land, even if but at a distance, instead of being limited merely to the spot where our foot treads.