dilly-dally hidey-hole shilly-shally wishy-washy criss-cross tip-top tee-hee ship-shape see-saw gol-mol
1. dilly-dally (V)
Meaning:-- postpone doing what one should be doing
- to take long to do something
- Don't dilly-dally on the way home from school.
- He did not want to write the letter and dilly-dallied for days.
2. hidey-hole (N)
Meaning:-- a place suitable for hiding something
- a place where somebody hides, especially in order to avoid being with other people
- Pakistan was a hidey-hole for Osama.
- We make bus a hidey-hole for being hidden.
3. shilly-shally (N/V)
Meaning:-- to take a long time to do something, especially to take a decision
- the act of procrastinating
- Stop shilly-shallying and make up your mind.
- He shillyshallied for days.
4. wishy-washy (Adj.)
Meaning:-- weak in willpower and courage
- not having clear or firm ideas or beliefs
- not bright in colour
- He is a wishy-washy man.
- Uneducated leaders act like wishy-washy.
5. criss-cross (Adj./V)
Meaning:-- with many straight line that cross each other
- to make a pattern on something with many straight lines that cross each other (V)
- The city is criss-crossed with canals.
- Children criss-cross on their books.
6. tip-top (N/Adj.)
Meaning:-- of the highest quality
- the extreme top
- The house is in tip-top condition.
7. tee-hee (N/Interject.)
Meaning:-- to laugh
- used to represent the sound of quiet laugh
- Tee-hee! the last paragraph is the false paragraph.
8. ship-shape (Adj.)
Meaning:-- clean and neat; in good condition and ready to use
- A ship-shape room.
- Ship-shape office of Microsoft
9. see-saw (N/V)
Meaning:-- a situation in which things keep changing from one state to another and back again
- to keep changing from one situation, opinion, emotion, etc. to another and back again
- The match was a see-saw battle between the two teams.
- Share prices see-sawed all day.
10. gol-mol (N) (Anglo-Indian origin)
Meaning:-- noise, hoo-ha, commotion
- Class room is full of gol-mol.
- A sudden raise of gol-mol in the city.
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