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Dilly-dallying...
intransitive verb
Definition
- 1
intransitive verb
Lingering on the way to doing a thing, for reasons that only retroactively make sense.
- 2
intransitive verb
Taking the indirect route, and arriving better acquainted with the territory.
Example
“Dilly-dallying through the examples.”— Claude Code, in no hurry