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dilly-dally |
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dilly-dally Verb [-lies, -lying, -lied] Brit, Austral & NZ informal to dawdle or waste time [reduplication of dally]
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Weir (Sam Neill), the mad scientist who designed the gravity drive, is going to suffer a most unpleasant fate unless they get their space-age carcasses out of there at warp speed, but for the reasons endemic to horror movies, they dilly-dally around until some of them are dead. But there is no need to dilly-dally with two revenue provisions in the budget - the transfer of $15 million from the wastewater (or sewer systems) fund and $106 million from the Department of Water and Power to the city's general fund. |
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