Dilly-dally (around) with (someone or something) phrase
To engage in frivolous or aimless activity with someone/something.
Instead of studying, he spent all his spare time dilly-dallying around with those papers.
If you hadn't dilly-dallied around with your friends this afternoon, you would finish your homework now.
I should have started studying for the exam last week, but I've been dilly-dallying around with my new video game.
The verb "dilly-dally" must be conjugated according to its tense.
The origin of this phrase is not clear.
Rainy, wet weather
It has been raining for hours, it is the season of lovely weather for ducks after all.