Usage of "drag one's feet"

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espanyol

Postpone doing what one should be doing.

Sinònims

Examples for "stall"

Town said the new apprenticeship system could not be allowed to stall. 
 Radio NZ 

The cancelled sale will not necessarily stall further new bond issues however. 
 Reuters 

I already knew the answer, but I needed to stall for time. 
 Ready Player One 

Mexican-born Rocio, who runs a stall, is taking the situation more seriously. 
 The Guardian 

And so the young pup had to stay in the dull stall. 
 The Nursery, No. 109, January, 1876, Vol. XIX. / A Monthly Magaz... 

And if you procrastinate long enough, maybe the issue will go away. 
 Four to score 

Suffering because they procrastinate, avoid, and fail to finish what they start. 
 No More Mr. Nice Guy! 

Nonetheless, avoid the impulse to procrastinate, distract yourself, or worse deliberate more. 
 Ebony 

Abandoned I have left my father's house, abandoned I procrastinate my doom. 
 The Works of Horace 

Kesseley had finished his morning rounds and couldn't procrastinate any longer. 
 Rakes and radishes 

Twice around the park and then to church, my dear sir, and don't dillydally. 
 Hearts of grey 

You're the last one, so I shouldn't dillydally. 
 Warlord: an alex hawke novel 

We cannot dillydally and shilly-shally any more. 
 Jamaica Observer 

They could only dillydally with the arts. 
 The petrified ants 

At this point, it made more sense just to lay things on the line than it did to dillydally. 
 Dying for Dinner (A Cooking Class Mystery) 

I've had enough of this shillyshally. 
 The Mark of Cain 

'Two not sound, five true as steel, and the rest shillyshally. 
 Farina 

So don't dilly-dally with making payments if you have the funds. 
 Ebony 

With Mercury about to go retrograde, if you dilly-dally, you could lose out! 
 Ebony 

If you dilly-dally much longer, Sue, you will let Max slip through your fingers yet. 
 Further Chronicles of Avonlea 

I expect it will be a fast one, though, fer they can't afford to dilly-dally. 
 Rod of the Lone Patrol 

You do not care to dilly-dally after church. 
 Lewis Rand 

Translations for drag one's feet

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Significats de drag one's feet en anglès