10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SHILLY-SHALLIES»
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Chambers concise dictionary
[Anglo-Saxon sailing] ♢ not the full shilling colloq not having all mental faculties
intact. shilly-shally /'Jilijali/ >v (shilly-shallies, shillyshallied, shilly-shallying) intr to
be indecisive; to vacillate. >adv indecisively. >n (shilly-shallies) indecision; ...
... shilly-shallies sallied dilly-dallied rallied tallied shilly-shallied sallying dilly-
dallying rallying tallying shilly-shallying -ALLEY alley galley valley alleys galleys
valleys -ALLEY -OLL (2) Extra for Unit 6 -OLL (2) /OH'L/ /OH'L-z/ Copyright ©
2006 ...
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Chembers 21 Century Dictionary
Shilly-shally /'Jill/all/ - verb (shilly-shallies, shillyshallied, shilly-shallying) intr to
be indecisive; to vacillate, o adverb indecisively. t> noun (shilly-shallies)
indecision; vacillation. • shilly-shallier noun. • shillyshallying noun. © 1 7c:
reduplication of ...
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Paperback Oxford English Dictionary
(shilly-shallies, shillyshallying, shilly-shallied) be unable to make up your mind. –
origin from shill I, shall I? shim n. a thin strip of material used in machinery to fill
up a space between parts or reduce wear. shimmer v. (shimmers, shimmering ...
Oxford Dictionaries,, Maurice Waite, 2012
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Heinemann English Dictionary
Japanese] shillelagh (shill-ay-lee) noun an Irish cudgel made of blackthorn or
oak. [after Shillelagh, County Wicklow] shilling noun (formerly) an old British coin
equal to five pence. shilly-shally ,vrb (shilly-shallies; shillyshallying; shilly-
shallied) ...
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Theory Collectve Behav Ils 258
This is a general principle; it should apply to the weak executive who does not
take decisive measures to apply sanctions to witch-hunters as well as the weak
governor who shilly-shallies in deciding to call in the National Guard to put down
a ...
My Biddy wasn't one of the kind that dilly-dallies or shilly-shallies : she pounces
on the child like a hawk on a chicken, stops its mouth so it could n't as much as
peep, and carries it into a wood near by and hides till dark. Then she takes it over
...
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A Writer's Voice: Collected Work of the Twentieth-century ...
And at the news office they have a slot in the door he could shove his cruddy
copy through, but he has to hand-carry it inside where he struts and poses, and
dilly-dallies and shilly-shallies, and tries to make small talk around the water
cooler or ...
Joseph Paul Linduska, Louise E. Dove, 2006
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Tales of Quails 'n Such
He has too much curiosity not to be interested, but too much discretion to pursue
the matter too far, so he shilly-shallies back and forth under your plug until you
are almost ready for apoplexy. He is not trying to decide which one of his natural
...
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Cobbett's Political Register
... there they are as sensitive as the galled back of a horse. At their temporalities,
therefore, say 1; answer ' ' no Popery "with that, my good yEoIus, and you may
dispense with the backings of Bua- dett and Buougham and all the shilly-shallies
...
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SHILLY-SHALLIES»
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Poetry: A reality TV show in slow motion
Another source, predating Williams, was the great shilly-shallies of Walt Whitman. But there seems to be some distance between Williams and Dickman, for sure, ... «OregonLive.com, Jul 13»
Remarkable story of a mother's love in GMA's 'Hiram na Puso'
She shilly-shallies at first, but moved by her conscience, she decides to take the victim to a nearby hospital. But it's too late; the victim is already 'clinically dead. «Vox Bikol, Mar 12»
