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Significados de dilly-dally em inglês

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Postpone doing what one should be doing.

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Uso de dilly-dally em inglês
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
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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
6
If all principals are like this, a principal is a synonym of a "dilly-dally."
Botchan (Master Darling)
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Without any dilly-dally, I get up and play.
The Irish Times
8
McIlroy is not a player to dilly-dally, and dispatched his opening drive with the minimum of fuss.
The Guardian
9
I'm a prompt man and don't dilly-dally.
Without a Home
10
We hadn't much time to dilly-dally.
Agahta christie: an autobiography
11
No friendly bookshop to dilly-dally in.
The Irish Times
12
When somebody's 102, you don't dilly-dally.
Shadow of an angel
13
How can you dilly-dally so, Missy?
Missy
14
Mayhap the Earl thinketh I am to train boys to his dilly-dally household service as well as to use of arms.
Men of Iron
15
In spite of autumn having already set in, the hot spell still lingered, quite in keeping with the dilly-dally atmosphere of the country.
Botchan (Master Darling)
16
They would dilly-dally like that till after dark, an' then come home swingin' hands an' gigglin' an' sayin' fool things to each other.
The Desired Woman
Translations for dilly-dally
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adiar
espanhol
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