lag behind
Lose the pace
To lag behind is to fall back or fail to keep pace with others.
Someone might lag behind on a hike, or a student might lag behind in reading skills.
The phrase often implies falling short of expectations or peers: Our sales are lagging behind last year's numbers.
She lagged behind the rest of the group.
- dawdleLinger without purpose
- backmarkerLast-place racer
- lose groundSuffer setback in progress
- tailenderLast-place finisher
- dead lastFinishing behind all others
outpaced · delay · playing catch up · procrastinate · running late · retrogress · overtaken · stagnate · hindmost · underperforming · sluggish · loiter · slow · crawl · gap · plod · fall back · drag
- slow thingssnail, tortoise, turtle, sloth, molasses
- Redundanciestautology, pleonasm, redundancy, redundant phrase, added bonus
- failingfail, fails, collapse, flop, bomb
lag behindlead
Dense metal, symbol Pb
get ahead · pull ahead · forge ahead · outpace · outstrip
lag behindspeed up
Increase velocity or rate
accelerate · hurry · quicken · gain ground · catch up
lag behindkeep up
Maintain pace or standard
keep pace · track with · exceed expectations · overperform · accelerate
behind, lag, linger, lagging, belated, trailing, laggard, lags, straggle