"shilly and shally" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "shillies and shallies",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shillying and shallying",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shillied and shallied",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shillied and shallied",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "word": "shilly-shally"
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        {
          "ref": "2007, Vivek Iyer, Samlee's Daughter, page 79",
          "text": "Mummy shillied and shallied",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1873, Dr. Kenealy's statement, July 30, the Tichborne trial http://books.google.com/books?id=ICgrAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA412",
          "text": "We know how they dillied and they dallied and they shillied and they shallied until after her death"
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        "Alternative spelling of shilly-shally"
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  "word": "shilly and shally"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "shillies and shallies",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shillying and shallying",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shillied and shallied",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shillied and shallied",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
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    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "ref": "2007, Vivek Iyer, Samlee's Daughter, page 79",
          "text": "Mummy shillied and shallied",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1873, Dr. Kenealy's statement, July 30, the Tichborne trial http://books.google.com/books?id=ICgrAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA412",
          "text": "We know how they dillied and they dallied and they shillied and they shallied until after her death"
        }
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