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Significats de drag one's heels en anglès

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Postpone doing what one should be doing.

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      Examples for "stall"
      1
      Town said the new apprenticeship system could not be allowed to stall.
      Radio NZ
      2
      The cancelled sale will not necessarily stall further new bond issues however.
      Reuters
      3
      I already knew the answer, but I needed to stall for time.
      Ready Player One
      4
      Mexican-born Rocio, who runs a stall, is taking the situation more seriously.
      The Guardian
      5
      And so the young pup had to stay in the dull stall.
      The Nursery, No. 109, January, 1876, Vol. XIX. / A Monthly Magaz...
      1
      And if you procrastinate long enough, maybe the issue will go away.
      Four to score
      2
      Suffering because they procrastinate, avoid, and fail to finish what they start.
      No More Mr. Nice Guy!
      3
      Nonetheless, avoid the impulse to procrastinate, distract yourself, or worse deliberate more.
      Ebony
      4
      Abandoned I have left my father's house, abandoned I procrastinate my doom.
      The Works of Horace
      5
      Kesseley had finished his morning rounds and couldn't procrastinate any longer.
      Rakes and radishes
      1
      Twice around the park and then to church, my dear sir, and don't dillydally.
      Hearts of grey
      2
      You're the last one, so I shouldn't dillydally.
      Warlord: an alex hawke novel
      3
      We cannot dillydally and shilly-shally any more.
      Jamaica Observer
      4
      They could only dillydally with the arts.
      The petrified ants
      5
      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)
      1
      I've had enough of this shillyshally.
      The Mark of Cain
      2
      'Two not sound, five true as steel, and the rest shillyshally.
      Farina
      1
      So don't dilly-dally with making payments if you have the funds.
      Ebony
      2
      With Mercury about to go retrograde, if you dilly-dally, you could lose out!
      Ebony
      3
      If you dilly-dally much longer, Sue, you will let Max slip through your fingers yet.
      Further Chronicles of Avonlea
      4
      I expect it will be a fast one, though, fer they can't afford to dilly-dally.
      Rod of the Lone Patrol
      5
      You do not care to dilly-dally after church.
      Lewis Rand
      Translations for drag one's heels
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