"delightful or excellent person or thing" (often used ironically), 1935, American English, from an earlier adjective (1909), perhaps from the first syllable of delightful or delicious, or related to the nursery word for "duck." Dilly was also slang for a stagecoach (1818), from French carrosse de diligence (see diligence).
双语例句
1. Don't dilly - dally ! Make up your mind!
别磨蹭了! 拿定主意罢!
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2. Don't dilly dally, hurry up!
别磨磨蹭蹭的, 快点!
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3. This little car is a real dilly!
这辆小汽车真不错!
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4. I sicken at his dilly - dallying.
我讨厌他吊儿郎当地浪费时间.
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5. He often dilly - dallied in making up his mind, until it was too late.
