not so fast
Hold your horses
Not so fast is an interjection telling someone to slow down or reconsider before proceeding.
It challenges an assumption or stops someone from acting prematurely: Not so fast—we haven't agreed to anything yet.
The phrase implies that something has been overlooked or that the other person is getting ahead of themselves.
- hold your horsesRequest for patience
- gradualnessSlow, steady progression
- hesitationDelay from uncertainty
- reconsiderationRenewed evaluation of something
- evaluationDetermining worth or quality
delay · back up · advice · pause · warning · pump the brakes · slow your roll · hold on · wait a minute · just a second · prudence · judgment · restraint · suggestion · deliberation · moderation · patience · clarification
- Wait phraseshold on, hang on, just a sec, one moment, pause
- patience phraseswait, hold on, just a minute, one moment, one second
- exclusionexclude, excluded, rule out, banned, bans
- interjectionsah, hey, aha, sheesh, oh
- warningswarning, alert, caution, danger, warning sign
- negativesno, never, none, nobody, nay
not so fastgo ahead
Permission to begin
go for it · be my guest · by all means · have at it · carry on
not so fasthurry up
Command to accelerate
step on it · chop chop · get a move on · faster · shake a leg
not so fastagreed
Shared the same view
fair enough · sounds good · no objection · absolutely · exactly
not, fast, faster, fastest, fasten, fastness, knot, nought, nothing