英语词汇shilly-shally的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	shilly-shally
词源	shilly-shally [E18th] People unable to make up their minds whether to do something are likely to ask themselves ‘Shall I?’ repeatedly. With the rhyming impulse also seen in dilly-dally [E17th] (dally came from the French for ‘to chat’ in the Middle Ages) and *willy-nilly, people in the 18th century mocked this tendency by expanding it to ‘shill I, shall I?’, and so shilly-shally was born.
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