bottom gear
Americannoun
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Villa were comfortable in defence and lively down the flanks through Mahmoud Trezeguet and Anwar El Ghazi, although short of the creativity required to take full advantage of Liverpool performing in bottom gear.
From The Guardian
On the way up this included all of us in bottom gear and panting like dogs along a hot, dark tunnel for 3km.
From The Guardian
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