0 to spend too much time doing something or making a decision because you do not know what is the right thing to do:
Stop shilly-shallying and make a decision now!
We are suffering now from shilly-shally in this matter.
He ought to be proud of it, and he ought to condemn this shilly-shally policy which we have had so far.
They do not want to shilly-shally and hang around.
I hope that we shall not shilly-shally over that one much longer.
The driver concerned did not shilly-shally about the matter, but said that his mind was on other things at the time.
So we should not shilly-shally on this: we should get on and sign it.
We shall never shilly-shally about who is responsible for it, or make excuses for the criminals.
We cannot afford to shilly-shally.
