dilly-dally
磨磨蹭蹭,磨磨蹭蹭的,磨磨蹭蹭地,磨磨蹭蹭地走
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dil·ly·dal·lied, dil·ly·dal·ly·ing.
- : to waste time, especially by indecision; vacillate; trifle; loiter.
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After showing promise, she was plucked out and sent to Bletchley to work in the research unit run by Dilly Knox.
After all, flu dilly-dallied last season, barely making a peep.
Why dilly-dally with teenage angst when you can bring on the Giant Robots, that was my motto.
Why, it's six thousand feet up here, and the wind don't monkey and dally around, hit gits right down to business.
Sire and sons returned from the cemetery invigorated for their dally labours.
He quite knew that to dally with the piano-player while smoking a high-class cigar was to insult the cigar.
When we entered Mr. Dilly's drawing room, he found himself in the midst of a company he did not know.
As the tent was found to encroach partly on the same crevasse, it may be imagined that we did not dally long over the meal.