10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SHILLY-SHALLIER»
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Chambers concise dictionary
... reduplication of shall I?] □ shilly-shallier n. "shilly-shallying n. shim >na thin
slip of metal, wood, plastic, etc used to adjust or fill a gap between machine parts,
especially gears. > v (shimmed, shimming) to fill or adjust with a shim or shims.
2
Silenced Voices: Hungarian Plays from Transylvania
You ... you ... little shilly-shallier. Gabor I was grabbed by shilly-shallying and by a
little sadness. Reka, why did your mother find it important to tell me about the
crying birds and all? As if she were trying to force her daughter onto someone -
that ...
Csilla Bertha, Donald E. Morse,
2008
Dipsychus, the shilly-shallier, puts love to death with an overdose of meticulously
punctuated qualifications: But love, the large repose Restorative, not to mere
outside needs Skin-deep, but thoroughly to the total man, Exists, I will believe, but
...
Oxford University Craig Raine CUF Lecturer New College,
2006
Fairbank was not a shilly-shallier. If he was planning on coming in, he'd have
done it. “Goldenrod Two, how close are they?” “A hundred meters. It's definitely a
man. Got to be the senator, sir. Got to be. Okay, I've got a whole platoon charging
...
Caspar Weinberger, Peter Schweizer,
2006
Close to weeping seems to remain a worldly endeavor more or less like the
turning of a part. Igloo gives burden to shack; some shilly-shallier goes
homeward in a miffy kind of excellence like the parasol below decks. FAMISHED
Famished by ...
6
Shakespeare and the Mystery of God's Judgments
(2.2.618-623)1 Hamlet's fears are justifiable and not the rationalizations of a born
shilly-shallier. Indeed it can be argued that his suspicions are correct and the
mere fact that the ghost tells the truth about Claudius proves nothing: . . .
oftentimes ...
7
Dictionary of Iconic Expressions in Japanese: Vol I: A - J. ...
I'm a bit of a shilly-shallier. [Motoko Arai, “Uchuu-gyo Tenmatsu-ki" in Guri:n
Rekuiemu, p.146, K0. 1983] (4) Eluwfb, .lliwfsofct git“) ermine, fe6i6§ffillfi<5tllir6o
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, ...
Hisao Kakehi, Ikuhiro Tamori, Lawrence Schourup,
1996
GEORGE: Katherine's made another shirt. HENRY: I'm losing it. Our Holy
damned Father, the Pope, is trying my patience to the utmost. Pissing shilly—
shallier. 'Will—I—won't—I give the King of England an annulment?' I'm seriously
afraid for ...
9
Mobilizing America: Robert P. Patterson and the War Effort, ...
"Don't get a shilly-shallier. Let's get a man who can carry the ball himself. There
aren't many. . . . [Patterson] has courage, conviction, capacity for hard work,
understanding and striking integrity." (Swope to Rosenman, August 30, 1944.) ...
... reason' (131). He becomes the archetypal shilly-shallier, the spin-it-out
procrastinator, taking decisions on whim or letting events decide for him until, as
Fergus tells him before Prestonpans, 'All other reflections are now Waverley as
story S3.
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