See foot-dragging on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1918, Francis Lynde, Branded, page 114:",
"text": "I am glad to be able to say that common honesty, or some shadowy simulacrum of it, revived presently and sent me back to the hotel, though not without terrible foot-draggings, you may be sure.",
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"ref": "2005, Clive Archer, Norway Outside the European Union: Norway and European Integration from 1994 to 2004, page 191:",
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"ref": "2008, Maryann Dickar, Corridor Cultures: Mapping Student Resistance at an Urban School, page 154:",
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"ref": "2010 December 9, Ewen MacAskill, “WikiLeaks cables: China ‘fed up’ with Burma's footdragging on reforms”, in The Guardian:",
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"ref": "2021 March 24, “Open Access: Waiting for the wires”, in RAIL, number 927, page 33:",
"text": "Given that (English) politicians are noted for foot-dragging on electrification schemes, will they use these new locomotives simply as an excuse to defer more electrification schemes?",
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