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slow down tubby, you're not on the moon yet 

A prase used when an over-weight person is consuming a large ammount of food, because On the moon, we would weigh much less than we do here on earth.
Tommy,a rather over-weight child, is stuffing his face with pie. His Older brother remarks, "Slow down tubby, you're not on the moon yet."

slow down and smell the roses 

this means stop stressing out, overthinking, or complaining. put your troubles in perspective and try to enjoy the short time you have on earth.
A - "oh my god we're going to have to walk all the way back to the bar cause i left my car keys there"
B - "slow down and smell the roses"
A - "wow this is nice scenery. it's a nice night, i like walking, and we're not really in a rush."

"Slow-down your shutter, your overlaoding me" ("Tsamtsem, ata lo ba-li tov" in Hebrew) 

Originated from contemporary spoken Hebrew, it defines a situation where an agitated person, most probably with a splitting head-ache, hang-over or before his first morning cofee, is asking another to calm down, don't use verbose sentences, speak slower or not to overload his aching head with issues that requires listening, thinking or focusing.

This phrase, originating from a leading Israeli comedy show, is well curved in contemporary spoken language and it means (in a free translation): - "slow down your shutter, your "homing in" on me in an overloading manner".

Gesture-aware people most often accompany this phrase with an overdramatic facial expression of a person abrupting his 1-hour sleep after having an awful hang-over, by some woody-allen style geek who lightens up the room and asking him if he read about the new star names EL-12141 reently discovered in our solar system.
You have just broken up with your girlfriend, and you have a splitting headache after a long night of non-fruitful pick-up bar road-show, and you have just been awaken your MBA roomate who opens your room windows wide, turns on the music loudly, and tells you in a patronizing voice "look at you, I am going to take care of you. Do you want me to prepare you an organic Soya drink? and then, we can practice some Yoga, and then..."

You then bluntly, with a suffering voice, eyes half-shut,your right hand blocking the rude sunlight coming from the windows, looking at him and, right before falling asleep again, saying "Tsamtsem, ata lo ba-li-tov".

Slow down their speed racer 

1. someone who says something they should not be saying

2. someone over exaggerating on something small
Angelos: wow! brandon your girlfriend is fucking hot

Andrew: slow down their speed racer

Let’s slow down!!!

Let’s slow down!!! — an enthusiastic ejaculation used when there is so much shade one could cast that you want to foreground each individual insult so that it can be can be both heard and appreciated.
Well, well, well MISS THANG what do we have here? Let’s slow down!!!…and let the critique begin!!!!

mental slow down 

it’s not a mental breakdown.
it’s slow and it makes you feel empty inside except your mind.

there‘s a tornado in your head but you can’t comprehend it.
i‘m having a mental slow down
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