drag heels



drag your/its heels

to do something slowly because you do not want to do it drag your/its feet When they told us they wanted to put computers in our classrooms, we dragged our heels a little bit.
See also: drag, heel

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
GustavGOO-stahf (German)Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, German
PaulÍNa-Slovak
LaylaLAY-lə (English)Arabic, English
RiittaREE:T-tahFinnish
LetÍCiale-TEE-zyə (Portuguese), le-CHEE-zyə (Brazilian Portuguese)Portuguese
GershomGUR-shahm (English)Biblical, Biblical Hebrew