"dead slow" is a commonly used phrase in English, especially when talking about speed.
For example, "My car was going dead slow up the hill."
It was an economy sedan, dead slow but reasonably roomy and comfortable.
Speed was reduced to dead slow, and at 5 p.m. the look-out sighted a large iceberg.
The first accusation has been lingering since that sunny day off San Diego, when it was clear that the Lincoln was steaming dead slow, in part so that land did not appear as the president addressed the nation.
But construction has proceeded at a dead slow pace, the country is starving, and after 11 months in office the Bush team has yet to hold a serious meeting with North Korean officials.
In another shop, 150 dead slow lorises were found in two boxes.
In 1993, 200 dead slow lorises were found cut open and stretched out on sticks in the markets of Phnom Penh.
DIY − Do It Yourself − is best: The Dead slowed its studio recording pace to a trickle in its final decades, even as it became more popular.
Capital letters, big vision, it's a juggernaut of a piece, walk-of-the-dead slow in parts, genuinely chilling in others, its black heart pulsing to the sound of a thunderous, nuclear undertow.
Once again the world's second-largest economy is slipping into recession, after a decade of dead-slow or no growth.
For more than two weeks now, White House officials have been receiving frequent updates on a rusting North Korean ship, the Kang Nam 1, as it makes its way dead-slow across the South China Sea.
When Jimmy Scott delivered a ballad such as The Masquerade is Over, Angel Eyes or his signature tune, Everybody's Somebody's Fool, in that distinctive high, pain-filled voice, measuring his phrases against a dead-slow tempo, listeners were left in little doubt that the emotion was drawn directly from his own experience.
