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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 pause in indecision before doing something

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

take one's time

get no place fast

go at a snail's pace

use delaying tactics

play a waiting game

bring up the rear

take a raincheck

put off doing something

drag your heels

let the grass grow under one's feet

put on the back burner

fritter away time

take one's own sweet time

while away the time

pussyfoot around

blow hot and cold

fritter time away

use dilatory tactics

scrounge around

appear to pass slowly

sit on one's butt

let something slide

postpone action

kick the can down the road

kick your heels

establish yourself

establish oneself

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

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

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Have a casual romantic liaison with

play fast and loose

make advances at

give the come-on to

commit adultery

behave flirtatiously

toy with someone's affections

trifle with someone's affections

have affairs affair

set your cap at

make romantic advances to

make sheep's eyes at

be a carpet knight

dally with someone's affections

have sexual intercourse

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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

kick up one's heels

have a good time

engage in games

be life of party

let your hair down

go places and do things

indulge in horseplay

shake one's booty

act the giddy goat

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To waste or spend time idly and unfruitfully

fritter away time

while away the time

sit on one's hands

idle away the hours

not lift a finger

while away hours

kick your heels

do nothing in particular

fritter time away

while away the hours

take a breather

put your feet up

bat back and forth

lay on one's oars

sit back and do nothing

rest on your oars

shirk one's duties

take things easy

entertain oneself

make yourself at home

let it all hang out

let yourself go

let your hair down

have a breather

suspend proceedings

take one's time

compose oneself

collect oneself

make less tense

take one's leisure

recharge one's batteries

snatch forty winks

have forty winks

get some shut-eye

refresh oneself

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To pause in indecision before doing something

pussyfoot around

sit on the fence

blow hot and cold

be in two minds

run hot and cold

be unable to make up your mind

be unable to decide

become unsteady

chop and change

drag your heels

stay in the background

be reluctant to come forward

keep changing your mind

have misgivings about

have scruples about

think twice about

have reservations about

vacillate about

mind doing something

have qualms about

drag one's heels over

drag one's feet over

tremble precariously

walk unsteadily

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Verb

To deceive or fool someone

take for a ride

put one over on

take advantage of

lead up the garden path

play fast and loose with

give the runaround

send on a wild-goose chase

pull a fast one on

pull the wool over someone's eyes

pull a swifty on

lead down the garden path

take to the cleaners

outmanoeuvre^UK

give someone a bum steer

pull a fast one

send on a wild goose chase

throw off the scent

put on the wrong track

do the dirty on

give wrong information to

propagandize^US

throw dust in someone's eyes

lead up garden path

put up smoke screen

put on false front

play games with

bait and switch

propagandise^UK

give the wrong impression

get the better of

pull someone's leg

make a sucker of

play for a fool

play a trick on

play a practical joke on

play a prank on

put someone up to something

sell a bill of goods

take to cleaners

twist around your little finger

play for a sucker

not tell the truth

be economical with the truth

not speak the truth

make up a story

tell a falsehood

lie through one's teeth

stretch the truth

tell a white lie

perjure oneself

tell a terminological inexactitude

concoct a story

forswear oneself

bear false witness

say something untrue

depart from the truth

tell an untruth

sell down the river

steal a march on

be cleverer than

stab in the back

run rings round

make rings round

play someone false

break faith with

be unfaithful to

sell a bill of goods to

do someone in the eye

do someone dirty

worm one's way out of

beat around the bush

slip something over on

stretch the rules

pull something funny

stack the cards

hit below the belt

go one better than

make a monkey of

make a monkey out of

make somebody look an idiot

arrange fraudulently

break the rules

find a loophole in

exploit a loophole in

yank someone's chain

throw off balance

put someone off their stride

catch on the hop

hold spellbound

cast a spell on

put the whammy on

put under magic spell

tickle to death

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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

stretch your legs

get some exercise

take Shanks's pony

pound the pavement

go for a constitutional

bat back and forth

march up and down

walk up and down

walk back and forth

walk to and fro

walk arrogantly

walk confidently

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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 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

let money slip through one's fingers

spend foolishly

indulge oneself

throw down the drain

spend money as if it grows on trees

spend money as if it were going out of fashion

spend recklessly

play ducks and drakes with

go down the drain

spend as if it grows on trees

spend as if there were no tomorrow

spend as if it were going out of style

throw money around

spend money like water

throw money down the drain

pour money down the drain

suffer the loss of

avail oneself of

have recourse to

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