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Meanings of dilly-dally in английском
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
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.
1
I've had enough of this shillyshally.
2
'Two not sound, five true as steel, and the rest shillyshally.
Usage of dilly-dally in английском
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.
6
If all principals are like this, a principal is a synonym of a "dilly-dally."
7
Without any dilly-dally, I get up and play.
8
McIlroy is not a player to dilly-dally, and dispatched his opening drive with the minimum of fuss.
9
I'm a prompt man and don't dilly-dally.
10
We hadn't much time to dilly-dally.
11
No friendly bookshop to dilly-dally in.
12
When somebody's 102, you don't dilly-dally.
13
How can you dilly-dally so, Missy?
14
Mayhap the Earl thinketh I am to train boys to his dilly-dally household service as well as to use of arms.
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.
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.