An expression used to describe anything that is very, very slow. (since a line of people waiting to get out of Hell would logically not move at all!)
Cell phone call:
Guy: Hi, I'm going to be a bit late.
Girl: Why?
Guy: I'm at the grocery store and this line is slower than the line out of hell!
Girl: Well, get here when you can!
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. PenguinBooks,1992. p. 38)