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Shilly-shally   Listen
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Shilly-shally  n.  Irresolution; hesitation; also, occupation with trifles. "She lost not one of her forty-five minutes in picking and choosing, no shilly-shally in Kate."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Shilly-shally" Quotes from Famous Books



... doctor," he cried. "That's enough. I began to think you were playing fast and loose, and I said to myself, Doctor's got too much shilly-shally, willy-nilly in him to make a good leader of this expedition, but I don't now. I can see farther than I did, and that you've been weighing it all over and looking before you leaped. And that's the right way to succeed. Gentlemen, and you two youngsters, we've ...
— The Peril Finders • George Manville Fenn



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