"dally" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It means to waste time, procrastinate, or engage in frivolous activities. Example: Sarah always loved to dally in the park, feeding the ducks and watching the clouds float by, but today she had to finish her report for work.
Rebellion may be a rite of student passage, but this is too great an issue and too great an opportunity to dally with passages of youth.
"They dally with different views and can't remember what they said from one week to the next," he says.The biggest problem with suppressing agitation on campus is practical: extremism reacts to scrutiny by moving on.
When Herat was freed, advancing Unity Party units did not dally in placing their men, literally, in some government posts.
There is no time to dally.
The leading roper, or "header," must catch the steer about the horns, dally his or her rope (i.e., wrap it around the saddle horn one or more times), and change the direction of the steer's run to benefit the throw of the other roper.
Among Jose Mourinho's recent taunts is that he cannot afford to dally over the nurturing of young players.
Some experts believe that the country is willing to forgo an agreement if the terms for getting one are humiliating, in the belief that America and its partners would be blamed for the breakdown and that the international sanctions regime would then quickly begin to erode.Don't dilly-dally, thoughThe idea that the West can bide its time is also questionable.
To north-eastern Europe, Finland's success in staying out of the Soviet bear-hug was a near-miracle; its long-time (1956-81) President Urho Kekkonen was a world authority on dilly-dally, compromise, yes-butting and agreeing when it didn't matter but not when it did.
Don't expect either Mr. Howard or Mr. Rosen to dilly-dally.
There is less time to dilly-dally on the road to building a business.
Whichever option organisers end up choosing, the universal injunction is to decide upfront and not dilly-dally until the Games have finished.
