1. Don't dilly - dally ! Make up your mind!

2. She had a dilly of a bruise on her arm.

3. Ranging wide over ancient aphorisms, Professor Noel Dilly struck precisely the right note of scepticism, receptivity and curiosity.

4. Don't dilly dally, hurry up!

5. This little car is a real dilly!

6. I sicken at his dilly - dallying.

7. He often dilly - dallied in making up his mind, until it was too late.