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shilly-shallyshil‧ly-shal‧ly /ˈʃɪli ˌʃæli/ verb (past tense and past participle shilly-shallied, present participle shilly-shallying) [intransitive] informal shilly-shallyOrigin: 1700-1800 shall I?; probably influenced by dilly-dally VERB TABLEshilly-shally |
Present | I, you, we, they | shilly-shally | | he, she, it | shilly-shallies | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | shilly-shallied | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have shilly-shallied | | he, she, it | has shilly-shallied | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had shilly-shallied | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will shilly-shally | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have shilly-shallied |
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Present | I | am shilly-shallying | | he, she, it | is shilly-shallying | | you, we, they | are shilly-shallying | Past | I, he, she, it | was shilly-shallying | | you, we, they | were shilly-shallying | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been shilly-shallying | | he, she, it | has been shilly-shallying | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been shilly-shallying | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be shilly-shallying | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been shilly-shallying |
to waste time or take too long to make a decision SYN dither |