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To move or act at a slow speed

Have a casual romantic liaison with

To engage in an activity for enjoyment or recreation

To waste or spend time idly and unfruitfully

To deceive or fool someone

To aimlessly move or drift from place to place

Waste time, money, or energy on trifling matters

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Verb

To move or act at a slow speed

while away time

play games with

drag one's feet

take one's time

get no place fast

blow hot and cold

pussyfoot around

use delaying tactics

play a waiting game

bring up the rear

take a raincheck

be in two minds

put off doing something

sit on the fence

put on the back burner

fritter away time

take one's own sweet time

while away the time

drag your heels

proceed in a leisurely fashion

use dilatory tactics

put something on the back burner

fritter time away

scrounge around

postpone action

appear to pass slowly

encounter difficulty

give a rain check

lay on the table

put on back burner

put in cold storage

take a rain check on

keep in abeyance

give rain check

hold in abeyance

kick the can down the road

sit on one's butt

be in a quandary

have second thoughts

be in a dilemma

be on the horns of a dilemma

establish yourself

establish oneself

be unable to decide

be unable to make up your mind

run hot and cold

leave to another time

kick your heels

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“There we would dally through the long night hours until the tinny clock sounded Reveille.”

Verb

Have a casual romantic liaison with

play fast and loose

make advances at

give the come-on to

commit adultery

make romantic advances to

make sheep's eyes at

behave flirtatiously

be a carpet knight

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“John can dally with a host of other women but never find in them the revelation of heavenly glory that he beholds after the most awkward kiss with the scholarly Lucy.”

Verb

To engage in an activity for enjoyment or recreation

entertain oneself

disport oneself

have a good time

entertain yourself

let one's hair down

occupy yourself

engage in games

be life of party

kick up your heels

kick up one's heels

indulge in horseplay

play the giddy goat

play for laughs

engage in high jinks

act the giddy goat

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To waste or spend time idly and unfruitfully

fritter away time

while away the time

while away hours

not lift a finger

twiddle your thumbs

kick your heels

twiddle one's thumbs

while away the hours

fritter time away

take a breather

put your feet up

make yourself at home

stretch oneself

sit on one's hands

idle away the hours

do nothing in particular

sit back and do nothing

take things easy

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To deceive or fool someone

take for a ride

put one over on

lead up the garden path

give the runaround

send on a wild-goose chase

pull a fast one on

pull a swifty on

take to the cleaners

pull the wool over one's eyes

lead one down the garden path

take advantage of

pull the wool over somebody's eyes

pull the wool over someone's eyes

outmanoeuvre^UK

give someone a bum steer

pull a fast one

put on the wrong track

send on a wild goose chase

throw off the scent

do the dirty on

take someone for a ride

lead up garden path

put on false front

bait and switch

propagandise^UK

have someone on

give wrong information to

propagandize^US

pull wool over eyes

take someone in

put up smoke screen

pull somebody's leg

pull someone's leg

make a sucker of

get the better of

give the wrong impression

play for a fool

play a trick on

lead down the garden path

play a practical joke on

play a prank on

play games with

pull a fast one on someone

sell a bill of goods

put one over on someone

take to cleaners

twist around your little finger

put someone up to something

lay it on thick

be economical with the truth

not speak the truth

perjure yourself

make up a story

forswear oneself

bear false witness

say something untrue

tell an untruth

not tell the truth

tell a falsehood

stretch the truth

tell a white lie

perjure oneself

forswear yourself

tell a terminological inexactitude

concoct a story

depart from the truth

play for a sucker

behave flirtatiously

give the come-on to

sell down the river

stab in the back

steal a march on

sell a bill of goods to

break faith with

run rings round

be cleverer than

make rings round

do someone in the eye

make a monkey of

make somebody look an idiot

worm one's way out of

beat around the bush

stretch the rules

pull something funny

stack the cards

hit below the belt

sell someone down the river

slip something over on

make a fool of somebody

lead somebody down the garden path

go one better than

take to the cleaner's

break the rules

be unfaithful to

string someone along

rub the right way

play fast and loose with

find a loophole in

exploit a loophole in

break your word

break one's word

find a way round

pass yourself off as

be hypocritical

yank somebody's chain

play someone false

fail to satisfy

fall short of expectations

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Verb

To aimlessly move or drift from place to place

wander aimlessly

get sidetracked

get off the point

go off at a tangent

follow one's nose

walk the tracks

go for a stroll

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Verb

Waste time, money, or energy on trifling matters

be prodigal with

be wastefully extravagant with

make poor use of

spend like water

throw around like confetti

be wasteful with

chuck something down the drain

pour something down the drain

spend money as if it grew on trees

spend money as if there were no tomorrow

spend money as if it were going out of style

throw down the drain

pour down the drain

spend money as if it grows on trees

spend money as if it were going out of fashion

spend foolishly

fail to exploit

spend recklessly

indulge oneself

give unstintingly

spend money like water

give generously

play ducks and drakes with

lay something out

spend as if it grows on trees

spend as if there were no tomorrow

spend as if it were going out of style

suffer the loss of

throw money around

throw money down the drain

pour money down the drain

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