Sentence examples for shilly-shally from inspiring English sources

Don't shilly-shally!

He did not shilly-shally in welcoming the crowd.

It doesn't shilly-shally around but says, 'I'm God, here I am.' " .

And the main characters of these books don't have time to shilly-shally about that.

And when we found out I was going to have another baby, I thought, Right, I can't shilly-shally any more.

The West Bank pimpernel pops up Shilly-shally Reconciliation is as elusive as ever A peace plan under threat Getting horny ReprintsYet poaching and illegal trading are rife in Zimbabwe and Congo.

The four-song encore - "Home Again", "Down the Line", "Blue Boy" and "Don't Shilly Shally" - are greeted with enormous warmth, and, at the finale, Collins triumphantly holds his cane aloft like He-Man.

When Congress refused to take action, Olmsted wrote to Henry Bellows, the president of the Sanitary Commission, "I hope the time-serving, shilly shally, disjointed, incoherent, lazy, cowardly disposition which prevails in Washington, will not fail to be denounced, and the urgency of immediate, comprehensive governmental action in the premises, will be insisted on".

Don't Shilly Shally runs the title of the song the Edinburgh-born ex-Orange Juice singer will eventually close with tonight, rising from his stool and exiting with an unbowed wave of his walking stick as the band play out – an appropriate sign-off for a man evidently in no mood to mess about.

And no shilly-shallying.

There is no shilly-shallying here.