蜗行牛步 — Chinese idiom
蜗行牛步
wō xíng niú bù
Traditional: 蝸行牛步
Meaning
- lit. to crawl like a snail and plod along like an old ox
- fig. to move at a snail's pace
- to make slow progress
Character by character
- 蜗wōsnail; Eulota callizoma
- 行xíngto go, to walk, to move; professional
- 牛niúox, cow, bull
- 步bùwalk, stroll, pace, march; to make progress
Idioms sharing a character
- 蚁斗蜗争 yǐ dòu wō zhēng
- 一意孤行 yī yì gū xíng
- 一目十行 yī mù shí háng
- 一言一行 yī yán yī xíng
- 三思而行 sān sī ér xíng
- 上行下效 shàng xíng xià xiào
- 不虚此行 bù xū cǐ xíng
- 事怕行家 shì pà háng jiā
- 令行禁止 lìng xíng jìn zhǐ
- 倒行逆施 dào xíng nì shī
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