dilly-dallying nell'Oxford Spanish Dictionary

Traduzioni di dilly-dallying nel dizionario inglese»spagnolo

dilly-dally <dilly-dallies dilly-dallying dilly-dallied> [ingl am ˈdɪliˌdæli, ingl brit ˈdɪlɪdali] VB vb intr colloq

1. dilly-dally (dawdle):

dilly-dally

perder el tiempo

he dilly-dallied over his work for hours

estuvo horas perdiendo el tiempo sin hacer nada de trabajo

don't dilly-dally on the way

no te entretengas

2. dilly-dally (vacillate):

dilly-dally

titubear

I wish he'd stop dilly-dallying!

¡ojalá tomara una decisión de una vez por todas!

Esempi monolingue (non verificati dalla Redazione di PONS)

inglese

If we continue to dilly-dally, then we will only fall further behind, missing out on investment, missing out on growth and depending on another debt exchange years from now.

www.jamaicaobserver.com

It's the colloquial words which tend to be neglected, and so in my list along with dialect and debt we find doobry and dilly-dally.

www.telegraph.co.uk

Once you get into your car, do not dilly-dally.

motioncars.inquirer.net

It's like, don't dilly-dally, let's do this and get it done.

www.rollingstone.com

He accused that the gas agencies are using dilly-dally tactics with the motive to deny the subsidies ultimately.

www.greaterkashmir.com

If you dilly-dally at all, it's game over, and everything explodes.

www.kotaku.com.au

We don't have time to dilly-dally.

www.newsoptimist.ca

If you're going to dilly-dally on the telephone, you're going to hear about it.

www.motherjones.com

Don't dilly-dally too long, as the store is set to close in early 2017.

www.cnet.com

There shall be no grace period for any leader or political coalition to dilly-dally on this.

www.freemalaysiatoday.com