slowcoach

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I am an old slowcoach, and your scheme makes me tremble.

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  • Only a couple of weeks ago, Canadian Mike Weir - a notorious slowcoach who apparently won't start his preparation for a shot until it is his turn to play - caused a lot of post-round bad feeling with his ice-like pace of play during what used to be called the LA Open at Riviera.
  • They found adding more trains just led to longer platoons; and when trains could pass each other, they just shuffled their order within the platoon - one slowcoach always led. —  New Scientist - Online News
  • It brakes automatically and slows to the speed of the slowcoach. —  Motoring
  • Ferreting is a business generally transacted without hustle, and the keeper was a noted slowcoach. —  Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler
  • I am an old slowcoach, and your scheme makes me tremble. —  More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1
 

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