dilly dally shilly shally


an expression used to chastize someone who is wasting time, focusing on unimportant things, procratinating, or otherwise being an emo blond-haired sissy boy.

note: in square enix straight-to-dvd gc movie sequel to final fantasy vii, advent children, dilly dally shilly shally is used as the translation to “zuru zuru zuru zuru” in the j-panese version… wtf
dilly dally shilly shally… cloud, you need to save the kids before their eyes get all f-cked up!
expression used by tifa in the “advent children” movie when talking to cloud. its j-panese translation is つるつる つるつる, or tsuru tsuru tsuru tsuru. which is a j-panese onomatopoeia for dragging.
‘dilly dally shilly shally’ is a way of telling someone to shut up and stop wasting time.
girl: you just cant deal with anything, can you??
guy: (some lame excuse)
girl: oh shut up.
guy: (more lame excuse)
girl: dilly dally shilly shally!

(example by christina s)
tifa lockhart’s term for nonsense in final fantasy vii advent children. she says this to cloud strife while trying to talk some sense into him, and he later uses it in the movie.
cloud: tifa … i’m not fit to help anyone — not my family, not my
friends. n-body.

tifa: dillydallyshillyshally
cloud: -looks up-
tifa: dillydallyshillyshally!
some random expression used to tifa in the movie final fantasy vii: advent children. no one is quite sure what it means, but it appears she says it in uncomfortable situations, much like “i don’t wanna talk about it!”
girl: you just cant deal with anything, can you??
guy: (some lame excuse)
girl: oh shut up.
guy: (more lame excuse)
girl: dilly dally shilly shally!

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