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Sluggish is the body filing for an extension on every deadline it owns.
means Moving, reacting, or functioning slowly and without energy, as if reluctant to get going at all.
from From 'slug' — not the bullet but the slow, slimy garden creature — plus the adjective ending '-ish.' The word 'slug' for a sluggard or slow-moving person dates to Middle English, possibly of Scandinavian origin (compare Norwegian dialect 'slugg,' a heavy body). By the late 1400s, calling someone 'sluggish' tied them to that creeping, trail-leaving snail-cousin: a person who oozes through life at gastropod speed.
- slug origin
- From slugge, a lazy person, long before the animal
- slug speed
- Real slugs crawl about 0.03 miles per hour
- cold blood
- Reptiles turn sluggish when temperatures drop too low
- market term
- Traders call quiet, drifting markets sluggish
- slug power
- Slugs can lift up to 50 times their weight
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japan's lost decade — 1990s economic stagnation after asset bubble burst, with near-zero growth for years