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What does dilly-dallying mean?

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Verb
  1. present participle of dilly-dally
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After much dilly-dallying, Salman has allotted dates to producer Boney Kapoor for the eagerly anticipated sequel.
I'm not going to be dilly-dallying around and dancing around the issues.
It is not a glorious entrance, but the park itself is, and warrants dawdling and dilly-dallying.
I ask you, Mr. Speaker, is the government going to stop the bureaucratese and this dilly-dallying with respect to first nations and Inuit people and act now?
Gaining valuable life experience is not exactly dilly-dallying.
We get detentions and suspensions for dilly-dallying like that, why shouldn't teachers?

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