There is no use in this shilly-shally way of yours, St. Clare!

Shilly-shally, to trifle or fritter away time; to be irresolute.

Drapery it was, and quickly; for Mrs. Munsey was not wont to shilly-shally.

Strange that people will have so much faith in shilly-shally!

"I have little experience of shilly-shally methods," replied his visitor.

Which, by the way, amounts to an admission that he does shilly-shally sometimes.

He mustn't palter, or trifle, or shilly-shally about that iron certainty.

They shilly-shally, they pick and choose, they discuss, they criticise.

But Chance—avenger of all shilly-shally—settled the matter offhand.

Your Uncle William used to make fun of me and sing 'Shilly-shally with the wee girls, ha, ha, ha!'