drop behind
— phrasal verb with drop uk/drɒp/us/drɑːp/verb -pp-
to get further behind or away from something or someone:
As the pace quickened, Pepe began to drop behind.
She stopped going to classes and dropped behind in her schoolwork.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Slow and moving slowly
- at a snail's pace idiom
- by and by idiom
- by degrees idiom
- claw your way (somewhere) idiom
- clunky
- drift
- float
- in ones and twos idiom
- inch by inch idiom
- infiltrate
- infiltration
- labour
- lag
- mill
- sluggish
- snail
- steadily
- steady
- straggle
- struggle
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