"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).
雙語例句
1. Don't dilly - dally ! Make up your mind!
別磨蹭了! 拿定主意罷!
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2. Don't dilly dally, hurry up!
別磨磨蹭蹭的, 快點!
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3. This little car is a real dilly!
這輛小汽車真不錯!
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4. I sicken at his dilly - dallying.
我討厭他吊兒郎當地浪費時間.
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5. He often dilly - dallied in making up his mind, until it was too late.