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Dilly-dally   /dˈɪli-dˈæli/   Listen
Dilly-dally

verb
1.
Postpone doing what one should be doing.  Synonyms: dillydally, drag one's feet, drag one's heels, procrastinate, shillyshally, stall.





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"Dilly-dally" Quotes from Famous Books



... words, she put on a serious look, and gave orders that he should be taken out and administered twenty blows with the bamboo. When the servants perceived that lady Feng was in an angry mood, they did not venture to dilly-dally, but dragged him out, and gave him the full number of blows; which done, they came in to report that ...
— Hung Lou Meng, Book I • Cao Xueqin


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