Shally

Cameron and Hague both continue to shilly-shally on this topic which makes many suspect that they will seek to avoid the issue if they can, knowing that a vote then to reject the Treaty would open up the whole issue of our membership of the EU at a stroke. ❋ Unknown (2008)

And while some polls show that Obama is still vulnerable on national security, especially as his administration seems to shilly-shally over how to try terrorists, public sentiment is lagging behind some very positive facts emerging on the ground. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Quinlan:   "I don't shilly-shally around on this issue." ❋ Unknown (2010)

No, you're shilly shally mostly by ariadna theokopoulos on Saturday, Feb 14, 2009 at 3: 43: 26 PM ❋ Unknown (2009)

Come, tell me your mind Hal! off or on? don't stand shilly shally; it's what I can't bear; speak honestly; I won't have your choice controlled; only this one thing I must tell you without ceremony, I shall never think well of you again as long as ever I live, if you demur so much as a moment. ❋ Unknown (2008)

You can put on the tap shoes and shilly-shally all you want, but if the entire state of Florida had been recounted, and if those Broward County fogies hadn't voted for Pat Buchanan by mistake, and if all those African-American Floridians hadn't been unfairly disqualified from voting, Al Gore would have been sworn in as president in 2001. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Scientists don't have the time or resources to shilly-shally with every new idea that comes down the pike. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Mandlebert a jog, to egg him on, that he might not be so shilly shally, as soon as ever the wedding's over, he'd accept his kind invitation to Beech ❋ Unknown (2008)

In a letter, he called it "a shilly shally thing of mere milk and water (and) a frail and worthless document." ❋ Unknown (2007)

Do! why I would have you give him his day, ahd keep to it; that I would have you do: and not shilly-shally for ever and subject the best of men to in sults. ❋ Unknown (2006)

To shilly-shally about something, not do something, ruminate over it, finally decide to take the plunge--and by then it's too late. ❋ Asakiyume (2006)

Irwine would think him a shilly - shally fellow ever after. ❋ Unknown (2004)

He says he must wait with patience, and trust to Providence, and such nonsense — But if so be as how his regard be the same, why stand shilly shally? ❋ Unknown (2004)

Men liked to be talked to straight, and no shilly-shally. ❋ Unknown (2004)

It was no time for shilly shally, for the balance of this and that, or for a man with blood and muscle to pat his nose and ponder. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)

I would not be guilty of shilly-shally conduct; I would tell her frankly what I felt and what I thought, and would make her understand that I did not desire her hand if I could not have her heart. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The mother, Mrs. Springer, had a nice shally dress for me to make, that she said she couldn't have got made to suit her as well for eight dollars, and urged me quite hard to go in with herself and daughter in opening a shop for dress-making. ❋ Laura S. Haviland (N/A)

You and me might shilly-shally here on this road all day, and what surety shall we hev 'that they hevn't gone by the other road. ❋ Various (N/A)