#shilly-shally

[hatsumishinogu]

shilly-shally

[surfcrowdsnotwaves]

Do you wanna stay up all night And talk about everything that could have been?

[ridley-was-a-cat]

382. Shilly-Shally - licensed - A young man arrives in a new city for a fresh start and falls into an odd job where he makes decisions for a mysterious man via the phone. The story goes to extremely dark places, including on-page rape scenes and grisly murder, and doesn't really handle it well.

[danskjavlarna]

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[newstfionline]

Word of the Day

shilly-shally (verb) SHIL-ee-SHAL-ee 1 : to show hesitation or lack of decisiveness or resolution 2 : dawdle

Shall I? Shall I? When you just don’t know what to do, it may feel as if asking that question twice will somehow help you decide. The 17th century saw the use of the phrase “stand shall I, shall I” to describe vacillation or indecision. By that century’s end, the phrase had been altered to “shill I, shall I,” most likely because people just liked the vowel alteration (that’s the same process that gave us dillydally and wishy-washy). Soon after, the adverbial shilly-shally made the jump from slang to literature and writers began applying it as an adjective, a noun, and a verb as well.

Example: “As for buying Concord grapes at either a farm stand or a supermarket, the rule of thumb is, when you see them, claim them. Don’t shilly-shally, because the season for this most coveted of grapes is fleeting.”--Heidi Legenbauer Williams, The Daily Gazette (Schenectady, New York), 9 Sept. 2016

[syn-esthetic]

shilly-shally is my new favorite weird-sounding word

[ongozine-blog]

Let’s fall, don't be so grey.

2016

materials/ Water / Acrylic color

fonts/ Didot (without serif)