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Meanings of dillydally in English
Postpone doing what one should be doing.
Synonyms
Examples for "stall"
Examples for "stall"
1
Town said the new apprenticeship system could not be allowed to stall.
2
The cancelled sale will not necessarily stall further new bond issues however.
3
I already knew the answer, but I needed to stall for time.
4
Mexican-born Rocio, who runs a stall, is taking the situation more seriously.
5
And so the young pup had to stay in the dull stall.
1
And if you procrastinate long enough, maybe the issue will go away.
2
Suffering because they procrastinate, avoid, and fail to finish what they start.
3
Nonetheless, avoid the impulse to procrastinate, distract yourself, or worse deliberate more.
4
Abandoned I have left my father's house, abandoned I procrastinate my doom.
5
Kesseley had finished his morning rounds and couldn't procrastinate any longer.
1
I've had enough of this shillyshally.
2
'Two not sound, five true as steel, and the rest shillyshally.
1
So don't dilly-dally with making payments if you have the funds.
2
With Mercury about to go retrograde, if you dilly-dally, you could lose out!
3
If you dilly-dally much longer, Sue, you will let Max slip through your fingers yet.
4
I expect it will be a fast one, though, fer they can't afford to dilly-dally.
5
You do not care to dilly-dally after church.
Usage of dillydally in English
1
Twice around the park and then to church, my dear sir, and don't dillydally.
2
You're the last one, so I shouldn't dillydally.
3
We cannot dillydally and shilly-shally any more.
4
They could only dillydally with the arts.
5
At this point, it made more sense just to lay things on the line than it did to dillydally.
6
Don't let them dillydally, though.
7
Too much dillydally about them.
8
I'm tired of this dillydallying around and the politics that keep me here.
9
But it's time for you two to stop dillydallying around.
10
So let's stop dillydallying about and get on with it.
11
I can't believe those two are still dillydallying around.
12
See what I mean about dillydallying.
13
"You told me six-fifteen and that I wasn't to dillydally," he reminded her.
14
"I don't pay you to dillydally and gossip," Mr. McPherson snapped.
15
"So, my lord?" said she to the vampire, not at all up for dillydallying.
16
"Then you're to go straight back to the Drum Tower-nodetours, no dillydally." Shannon sat down behind his desk.