drag one's heels
verbverified·updated Jun 3, 2026
postpone doing what one should be doing
MWE
Classifications
Cognitive
Understand75%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Responsibility
Unclassified—trigger_default_value
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Automation
Unclassified—trigger_default_value
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Variants
- synonym
- shillyshally
- pasttense
- dragged one's heels
- presentparticiple
- dragging one's heels
- thirdpersonsingular
- drags one's heels
- pastparticiple
- dragged one's heels