Tanya, calling from Xiamen, China, and originally from Marshall, Michigan, asks about dilly-dally, a phrase that surprised her coming from her 24-year-old brother. Dilly-dally is a reduplicated form of dally, from Anglo-French dalier, meaning “to...
Tanya, calling from Xiamen, China, and originally from Marshall, Michigan, asks about dilly-dally, a phrase that surprised her coming from her 24-year-old brother. Dilly-dally is a reduplicated form of dally, from Anglo-French dalier, meaning “to...