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at a snail's pace

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Very slowly. The slowness of snails was pointed out about 200 B.C. by the Roman poet Plautus and the term "snail's pace" in English goes back to about 1400. Relative to its size, however, a snail travels a considerable distance each day, using the undersurface of its muscular foot to propel itself.

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