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Dilly-dally   Listen
verb
dilly-dally  v. i.  To loiter or trifle; to waste time.





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"Dilly-dally" Quotes from Famous Books



... "who'd have believed the old beldame had so much suppleness in her joints? But it's no joking matter. Only to think of it! Everything looking so bright, and now Satan's luck once more back upon us—bad, if not worse, than ever! Well, we mustn't dilly-dally here. If there's still a chance left us, we'll have to look for it down below, by that big ...
— Gaspar the Gaucho - A Story of the Gran Chaco • Mayne Reid
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... excited grandam. "But why so dead-alive? Once more the luck is yours! Play your knave! play Irby! He's just been here! He will return! He will propose this evening if you allow him! Let him do it! Let him! Mobile may fall any day! If you dilly-dally till those accursed Callenders get back, asking, for instance, for their—ha, ha!—their totally evaporated chest of plate—gr-r-r! Take him! He has just shown me his uncle's will—as he calls it: a staring forgery, but you, h-you won't mind that, and the ...
— Kincaid's Battery • George W. Cable
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Words linked to "Dilly-dally" :   procrastinate, drag one's feet, delay, drag one's heels


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