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
Rafa	RAH-fah	Spanish
Felicidad	fe-lee-thee-DHAHD (Spanish), fe-lee-see-DHAHD (Latin American Spanish)	Spanish
Ruxandra	-	Romanian
JoaquÍN	hwah-KEEN	Spanish
Thalia	[θə'laiə]
Gloria	GLAWR-ee-ə (English), glo-REE-ah (Italian), GLAW-ryah (Polish)	English, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Polish