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What does dilly-dally mean?

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Verb
  1. To dawdle; to waste time; to procrastinate.
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The season is fleeting and supplies often limited so you can't dilly-dally about buying them individually.
If, on the other hand, we dilly-dally during this precious time, we will lose out and other countries will be only too ready to fill the gap.
Currently the government will dither and dilly-dally as it is wont to do with a number of these types of issues.
I do agree with him that this is a matter that we do not want to dilly-dally on for too long.
They cannot dilly-dally with the issue as the deadline has been set.
This is very important because the Leader of the Opposition did not dilly-dally.

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