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Walking somewhere with the urgency of a Sunday and the schedule of never.

means To waste time by moving or acting slowly, lingering when you should be getting on with it.

from Surfaced in the 1650s, likely a cousin of the dialect word daddle, to totter or toddle alongbasically baby-walking elevated to a lifestyle.

Sibling wordRelated to diddle, also meaning to waste time.
Master practitionersToddlers near bedtime and shoppers near closing.
Built-in judgmentImplies you could hurry but rudely won't.
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