dilly-dally (around) with (someone or something)
dilly-dally (around) with (someone or something)
To waste time with someone or something. You spent so much time dilly-dallying with your friends that now you'll be up all night writing that paper.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
dilly-dally (around) with someone or something
to waste time frivolously with someone or something. Stop dilly dallying around with your friends. He is always dilly-dallying around with his work.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
- any time
- anytime
- ahead of (someone's or something's) time
- ahead of your/its time
- at all hours
- at all hours (of the day and night)
- any time means no time
- an open invitation
- a whole other ball of wax
- (it's) (a)bout time