Daily life

slow everything down

make life less rushed

To slow everything down means to make life or an activity feel calmer and less hurried.

B2 common mostly spoken

expression

Hear it in real life

Why do you go fishing at weekends?

It slows everything down and clears my head.

Play the conversation

Turning off my phone for an hour slows everything down.

The mistake everyone makes

Not: A walk slows down everything for me.

Say: A walk slows everything down for me.

In this expression, "everything" normally comes between "slows" and "down".

Build it

How it fits in a sentence.

slow everything down; it slows everything down; it slowed everything down

Your turn: say it out loud

Turning off my phone for an hour slows everything down.

Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.

slow everything down

make life less rushed

“Turning off my phone for an hour slows everything down.”

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