dilly dally in English

verb

(Slang) stall, procrastinate, put off until a later time; dawdle, waste time, loite

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1. But at least you've learned how to use "dilly-dally".

2. Don't dilly-dally; we need to go to the party right now.

3. My old man said "Foller the van, And don't dilly dally on the way".

4. Mother: Here, this should be enough. And don't dilly-dally on the way. I want you to come straight back.

5. Like Drawn to Life, another one of 5th Cell's games, players can dilly-dally in the game's startup menu.

6. There is no time to dilly-dally in our work. And so now I made up my mind instantly, and with no time lost returned to the shore, and jumped on board the jolly-boat.

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8. ‘I Boondoggle, I dilly-dally, I hang fire; but now it's time, I delay no longer.’ ‘He is a trusted member of the CEO brotherhood, and he never met a military Boondoggle he wouldn't hug.’ ‘The Rangers are still paying the San Diego Padres for taking that Boondoggle off their hands.’

9. ‘I Boondoggle, I dilly-dally, I hang fire; but now it's time, I delay no longer.’ ‘He is a trusted member of the CEO brotherhood, and he never met a military Boondoggle he wouldn't hug.’ ‘The Rangers are still paying the San Diego Padres for taking that Boondoggle off their hands.’

10. The two properties that characterize Ablaut reduplication in English (chit-chat, dilly-dally) are: (1) identical vowel quantity in the stressed syllabic peaks, (2) maximally distinct vowel qualities in the two halves, with [i] appearing most commonly to the left and a low vowel to the right.In addition, Ablaut reduplicatives are described as having a trochaic contour, yet there is a great deal