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The phrase "dally around" is correct and can be used in written English.
It means to waste time or to be slow in doing something. You can use it in various situations, such as: 1. I don't have time to dally around, I need to finish this report by the end of the day. 2. Stop dallying around and help me clean the house before our guests arrive. 3. She's always dallying around, never focusing on her studies. 4. We can't afford to dally around, the deadline for the project is approaching. 5. The kids were dallying around in the park, enjoying the sunshine. 6. I wish he wouldn't dally around and just make a decision already. 7. Don't dally around, we need to catch the early train. 8. I can't stand people who dally around while others are working hard. 9. He spent the entire day dallying around instead of doing his chores. 10. The students were dallying around the classroom, not paying attention to the teacher's instructions.
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This is not a time to dally around.
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As a freelancer, chances are you're interested in independently pitching your services to businesses instead of dilly-dallying around, awaiting job listings on highly competitive job boards.
The joke continues as they invisibly move among the English-language-only employees left dallying around late at night on a weekday.
We have a way of talking ourselves into some really stupid decisions when dallying around with attractive people outside our relationships.
But one message that might be drawn from this film is that, if anything, they should spend less time dilly-dallying around.
Now, if you'd had yourself a steak, you'd have put out.'" Clearly, this busy, tangential mind is the mainspring of his comic appeal, but it also seems to be tied to his impatience, his pervasive sense that he shouldn't be dallying around this motorway service station of a country, not when there's America just waiting for him to make it big and move over there.
Word to the wise — don't dilly-dally around folks.
None of that a $4,600 dilly-dallying around here.
Over eight months have passed since the civil rights ordinance was passed and they've been dilly-dallying around over this, and I for one want to see the club get about the business of complying..
However, don't dilly-dally around when they say you're train is "now boarding" from the board.
He is someone she may dally with.
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