shilly-shally
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishshilly-shallyshil‧ly-shal‧ly /ˈʃɪli ˌʃæli/ verb (shilly-shallied, shilly-shallying) [intransitive] informal SPEND TIMEto waste time or take too long to make a decision SYN dither→ See Verb tableOrigin shilly-shally (1700-1800) shall I?; probably influenced by dilly-dally