Definition of "dilly-dally" []

• To waste time, especially in indecision; dawdle or vacillate. (verb-intransitive)

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• "He would push us to resolution and not dilly-dally around, as though someone else needed to help the children and the aged, the orphans and the widowed."
• "Don't dilly-dally with yanking up your pants anymore."
• "Let's not dilly-dally, let's get straight on into the funny, shall we?"