English: You’re as slow as a jar of molasses
collected: Raleigh, NC (9-1-2018)
origin: Something her mother would say to her, as a child, when she was being slow. From Raleigh, NC.
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Spanish:
English: Move your ass – you look like an earthenware jug.
collected: Flushing Meadows – Corona Park, Queens (6-4-2016)
origin: a common jank directed at children, from Bogotá, Columbia. Said to someone who is being slow. An indigenous term for an earthenware jug or flower pot.
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Spanish:
English: Hurry up! You look like a lentil.
collected: Flushing Meadows – Corona Park, Queens (6-4-2016)
origin: a common jank directed at children, from Bogotá, Columbia. Said to someone who is being slow (“lento” = slow in Spanish).
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Finnish: Eikö lanttu leikkaa?
English: Is your turnip being cut?
collected: Vaasa, Finland (12-21-2015)
origin: common Finnish expression
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Spanish: “huevón”
English: Literally “big egg” but slang for “really big testicles” that are so big they prevent you from moving.
collected: Cleveland, Ohio – Cleveland Institute of Art (11-7-14)
origin: a common saying in El Salvador, used when someone is being lazy or slow.
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“You’re as slow as pond water”
collected: Pittsburgh, Strip District (9-20-14)
origin: from a foreman on a job at a steel plant in Braddock, PA
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Translation from Spanish: “You’re as slow as the body’s horse”
collected: Belfast, Northern Ireland (9-7-13)
origin: common insult from the South of Spain, Cordova