be a slow learner

I may be a slow learner, but that got through to me.

However, teachers dismissed his problems as "being a slow learner."

In matters of the spirit, Mozart was a slower learner.

"You seem to me to be a slow learner."

Joe was a slow learner who showed little interest in his studies, his mother said.

ON the subject of vacations, I am a slow learner.

But as we know Labour is a slow learner.

For one of vast intellectual curiosity, he reveals himself to be a slow learner.

She was a slow learner, all right, but a good teacher is at his best with slow learners.

One of eleven children in a poor family, he was a slow learner in his youth.

No one could say that Rhoslyn was a slow learner.

Usually girls weren't given so much opportunity for practice, but poor Pumpkin was a slow learner and needed the extra time if anyone ever did.

"Well I see you are a slow learner!"

Hammond grimaced, as if Thomas were a slow learner.

He was a slow learner, true enough, but he died meanly, for greed.

Zaand was well aware that he was a slow learner.

In Balbinder's case it was not simply that he was a slow learner.

He was a slow learner, and one day Wittgenstein hit him two or three times on the head, causing him to collapse.

This new helot was a slow learner.

Hydrogen was a slow learner, as was shown by the time it took him to learn to put limits on his curses.

He knew that Bane and Agape had increasing concern about the child, who seemed to be a slow learner.

I'd never doubted it; but then, Severio was a slow learner in the family business of intrigue.

He is a slow learner.

As his follower, Mr. Lang is a slow learner.

The case concerned a 13-year-old girl whom the LEA accepted was a slow learner with special educational needs.