drag one's heels
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7685·updated Jun 3, 2026verified
postpone doing what one should be doing
MWE
Classifications
Cognitive
Understand75%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
Responsibility
Unclassified—trigger_default_value
Automation
Unclassified—trigger_default_value
Variants
- synonym
- shillyshally
- pasttense
- dragged one's heels
- presentparticiple
- dragging one's heels
- thirdpersonsingular
- drags one's heels
- pastparticiple
- dragged one's heels
Framework definitions
- §1
- postpone doing what one should be doing
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