heels: drag one’s heels

[»I’ve been drag­gin’ my heels with a bitch cal­led hope«
Guns N’ Roses, »Gar­den Of Eden«
Guns n’ Roses © 1991

»The fact that our repre­sen­ta­ti­ves have been drag­ging their heels on the­se issues is on the one hand, due to the sanc­ti­fy­ing of natu­re and on the other the quick …«
Women Intellec­tu­als in Post-68 France: Peti­ti­ons and Pole­mics, I. Long — 2013