dilly-dally

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I prefer Svpply and I only use it for things I want to buy. Just like in real life, I don't have time to dilly-dally at the mall : P

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Quick take

postpone doing what one should be doing; "He did not want to write the letter and procrastinated for days"

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verb

postpone doing what one should be doing; "He did not want to write the letter and procrastinated for days"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for dilly-dally.

verb

postpone doing what one should be doing; "He did not want to write the letter and procrastinated for days"

Example sentences

I prefer Svpply and I only use it for things I want to buy. Just like in real life, I don't have time to dilly-dally at the mall : P

On a laptop, I have a tendency to dilly-dally around my purchases and over-think/read too much into reviews and what have you.

They'll take forever to make decisions, dilly-dally while they compare notes with other investors, etc.

I sometimes think that going a bit slower could be helpful to society, but the truth is that we don't have forever to dilly-dally where we are. If we're going to win the sustainability race with the high-technology solution [1], we need to get there before the resources run out.

Instead of slogging away obediently at a problem for six hours, they might dilly-dally on twitter for two hours before having a lateral insight that lets them solve the problem in 15 minutes.

It may be economically rational to dilly-dally on advanced techniques when some other market is leading the way; or to drive a national hard-bargain to get drugs near the cost of production when the drug is already developed.