dilly-dally

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verb

postpone doing what one should be doing
- He did not want to write the letter and procrastinated for days
• Syn:
procrastinate, stall, drag one's feet, drag one's heels, shillyshally, dillydally
• Derivationally related forms:
dillydallier (for: dillydally), shillyshally (for: shillyshally), stall (for: stall), procrastination (for: procrastinate), procrastinator (for: procrastinate)
• Hypernyms:
delay
• Hyponyms:
procrastinate
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- They dilly-dally the cape

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  procrastinate, stall, drag one's feet, drag one's heels, shillyshally, dillydally