Earnings and share price may drag for a while longer, but here's how they have the potential to kick into high gear eventually.
As many people will recall (because the controversy dragged on for a while), an update in Instagram's terms of service and privacy policy, which was introduced so it could better collaborate with Facebook after the social networking service purchased it, upset and confused users who worried that their photos would be sold or used in ads without their permission.
The case seems certain to drag on for a while.Meanwhile, Mr Gilani has become an increasingly controversial figure.
On Tuesday, General Manager Brian Cashman asserted that the team's search for a third-base replacement for Alex Rodriguez could drag on for a while.
"There's some concern that the lawyers are going to take over and this thing is going to drag on for a while".
But the difference between him and Carson, he said, "is that this issue involves the courts, which means that this could drag on for a while and set off a feeding frenzy again and again thanks to the blogs, the cable channels and the tabloids, none of which show any sign of calming down".
So things may drag on for a while, if only because it takes a bit of courage to decide to walk away, but if you both know it's over and there's no way back to the way things were, much less forward to the way you'd fantasised things would be, where else is there to go but off, and preferably slamming a door.
Then if she'd didn't get caught fairly quickly on a falsehood, the charade could drag on for a while, though with suspicions about things like her celeb-packed Instagram feed and the excuses about why she couldn't deliver.
"He has been working on that toe-drag for a while," goalie Henrik Lundqvist said of McDonagh's move.
I've been doing drag for a while, but to join the Rockettes, I was subject to lengthy tests of my willpower, drag prowess, and loyalty.
