slow off the mark
Meaning: Slow [or quick] to understand a situation.
Language: English
Literally: (Already vivid in English)
Category: Daily Life
Origin: The expression suggests a race in which the participants are slow [or quick] to leave the point of departure (the mark).
More idioms — Daily Life
- sour grapes — A situation where a person criticizes something or someone out of jealousy.
- speak one's mind — To tell someone how one feels or what one thinks.
- speak one's piece — To tell someone how one feels or what one thinks.
- spitting image — An exact likeness.
- split hairs — To argue about some detail that is not important.
- spring something on someone — To surprise someone with something.
More English idioms
- snowball's chance in hell — No chance at all.
- sow one's wild oats — To do foolish or wild things, usually as a youth.
- speak of the devil — An expression used when someone who is being talked about has just appeared.
- on the spur of the moment — Suddenly or spontaneously; without advance planning.
- square deal — A fair arrangement, fair treatment, or a fair price.
- stand one's ground — To be firm in one's resolve or not to alter one's position (sentence 1); not to give up a…
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