Meaning of SLOWLY BUT SURELY - A Really Short English Lesson with Subtitles

So, in English, if we say something

is happening slowly but surely,

it means it's happening slowly.

It means it's not going very fast.

But, it means that it's going well.

A great example would be when they build a skyscraper.

When they build one of those gigantic buildings in the city,

they build them slowly but surely.

So, they go slow because they want to make sure

that everything is done properly.

So, they build them slowly but surely.

Another good example is this YouTube channel.

I'm a little over 11,000 subscribers now.

It is growing slowly but surely,

and I'm pretty happy about that.

So, again in English, when you build something,

or do something slowly but surely,

it means that it's going slow but it means

that it's going probably, at just the right pace,

so that everything is done well and properly.

Hey, we have another phrase to talk about

things that go slow and that's to say that something

is going at a snail's pace.

This doesn't mean things aren't going well,

it just means slow.

A snail is that little animal with a shell on top,

and they go really, really slow.

So, if something is going at a snail's pace,

it means it's going really slow.

The best example for this would be

when you are in a traffic jam.

Sometimes you're in a traffic jam,

and the traffic is going at a snail's pace.

And, that just means slow, and it's kind of aggravating

when that happens.