go slow

Noun

go-slow (plural go-slows)

1. (Ireland, UK) A period of time spent in an unusually slow fashion.
2. (Ireland, Nigeria, UK) Deliberate slow working as a protest during an industrial dispute.
   • Indiscipline results in chaos, confusion and diffusion or results. It give rise to strikes, ‘go-slows’, absenteeism, leading to loss of production, profits and wages. […] The features of code of discipline:
     (i) It prohibits strikes and lock outs without proper notice and also prohibits...2018 October 8, Nwanne Titus Freeman Ifeanyi, “LABOUR UNREST AND INDUSTRIAL PEACE”, in 8th Annual Youth Peace Conference, Godfrey Okoye University, pages 5, 7
3. (Nigeria, informal) Any ponderous business, such as backhanded public administration or a traffic jam.
   • Nigerian masses are likely to be reticent about another two weeks of putting their lives on another go-slow.
   • The first go-slow became evident during the first full lockdown when characteristically , govt authorities that promised the masses food, money and welfare after appropriating huge sums of money under the auspices of a powerful presidential task force, PTF, failed to deliver. […] And as if history...2020 May 20, Magnus Onyibe, “Nigeria’s strategy for combating COVID-19: How we can change from go-slow to go-smart?”, in The Cable