"foot-dragging" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From drag one's feet.",
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      "form": "foot-draggings",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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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.",
          "type": "quotation"
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        {
          "ref": "2005, Clive Archer, Norway Outside the European Union: Norway and European Integration from 1994 to 2004, page 191",
          "text": "The tactics of pace-setting, foot-dragging, least resistance or fence-sitting could be used either in the making of policy or, later, in its implementation.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Maryann Dickar, Corridor Cultures: Mapping Student Resistance at an Urban School, page 154",
          "text": "Once in the classroom, students also employed foot-dragging strategies to slow the transition from the hall state to the student state.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2010 December 9, Ewen MacAskill, “WikiLeaks cables: China ‘fed up’ with Burma's footdragging on reforms”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "A Beijing diplomat complained China is “fed up with the footdragging” of Burma's strongman, General Than Shwe, and his inner circle, one of the cables, released by WikiLeaks, reported.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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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        "The deliberate delaying of obligatory action."
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          "word": "delaying tactic"
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        {
          "word": "slowball"
        },
        {
          "english": "from slow-walk",
          "word": "slow-walking"
        },
        {
          "word": "footdragging"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "foot-dragging"
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  "etymology_text": "From drag one's feet.",
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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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Clive Archer, Norway Outside the European Union: Norway and European Integration from 1994 to 2004, page 191",
          "text": "The tactics of pace-setting, foot-dragging, least resistance or fence-sitting could be used either in the making of policy or, later, in its implementation.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Maryann Dickar, Corridor Cultures: Mapping Student Resistance at an Urban School, page 154",
          "text": "Once in the classroom, students also employed foot-dragging strategies to slow the transition from the hall state to the student state.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2010 December 9, Ewen MacAskill, “WikiLeaks cables: China ‘fed up’ with Burma's footdragging on reforms”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "A Beijing diplomat complained China is “fed up with the footdragging” of Burma's strongman, General Than Shwe, and his inner circle, one of the cables, released by WikiLeaks, reported.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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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      "word": "slow-walking"
    },
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      "word": "footdragging"
    }
  ],
  "word": "foot-dragging"
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