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DRAG ONE'S HEELS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does drag one's heels mean?
• DRAG ONE'S HEELS (verb)
The verb DRAG ONE'S HEELS has 1 sense:
1. postpone doing what one should be doing
Familiarity information: DRAG ONE'S HEELS used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Postpone doing what one should be doing
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Synonyms:
dilly-dally; dillydally; drag one's feet; drag one's heels; procrastinate; shillyshally; stall
Context example:
He did not want to write the letter and procrastinated for days
Hypernyms (to "drag one's heels" is one way to...):
delay (act later than planned, scheduled, or required)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "drag one's heels"):
procrastinate (postpone or delay needlessly)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
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