slow up
To go more slowly.
The truck slowed up as it approached the toll gate.
Construction on the road slows up traffic.
Slow up a bit! You’re talking so quickly that I can’t catch on well.
To become less busy.
Business slows up at the stores after Christmas.
slowdown
A period of lesser activity, usually in the economic sphere.
We all hope the current slowdown in the economy will soon be over.
slowly but surely
Медленно, но верно.
If you do something slowly but surely, it will be done properly.
Если вы делаете что-то медленно, но верно, это будет сделано должным образом.
standard time
slow time
slow tune
Clock time that is set by law or agreement in a country or in part of a country; especially, in the United States: the clock time used between fall and spring, which is an hour slower than the time used in the summer. Abbreviation ST.
When we go to bed Saturday night, we will set our clocks back an hour, because Sunday we will be on standard time again.
Next week it will get dark an hour earlier, because we will be on standard time.
strange bedfellows
Мизальянс. Необычная или неправдоподобная связь двух или более людей, компаний или государств.
A car manufacturer and a bakery - strange bedfellows don't you think?
Производитель машин и пекарня, странный союз, не находишь?
swallow one's pride
pocket one's pride
To bring your pride under control; humble yourself.
After Bill lost the race, he swallowed his pride and shook hands with the winner.
swallow up
To do away with; absorb; engulf.
My expenses are so great that they swallow up my modest salary.
tough act to follow
A speech, performance, or activity of such superior quality that the person next in line feels and thinks that it would be very difficult to match it in quality.
Sir Lawrence Olivier's performance of Hamlet was a tough act to follow in every sense.