drag one's feet

Also, drag one's heels. Act or work with intentional slowness, deliberately hold back or delay. For example, The British had been dragging their feet concerning a single European currency. This metaphor for allowing one's feet to trail dates from the mid-1900s.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Bea	BEE	English
Laura	LAWR-ə (English), LOW-rah (Spanish, Italian, Finnish, Polish, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, German, Dutch), LAW-oo-raw (Hungarian)	English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian, Polish, Slovene, Croa
Beorhtsige	-	Anglo-Saxon
SauliĀ	-	Baltic Mythology (Hypothetical)
Albinus	-	Ancient Roman
Nuray	-	Turkish