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Drag the chain

verb

Definitions

1.verbTo fall behind relative to others.
2.verbTo unwittingly hold up progress.
3.verbTo deliberately hold up progress by acting slowly.
"Act’s dragging of the chain seems designed to prevent progress on this important issue."

Synonyms

pull someone's chaintrail behindjerk someone's chaintrailbring up the reardrag one's heelsyank someone's chainrun behinddragdrag one's feetdraftkeep up with
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