Drag one's feet, phrase.
Definition: Be deliberately slow or reluctant to act.
Examples:
1. The government has dragged its heels over permanent legislation.
2. This rather seems to bear out his surmise… that they are deliberately dragging their heels.
3. However, they are issued under a voluntary code and the organisation said there had been thousands of cases where firms had dragged their heels, or simply refused to issue codes.
4. Nothing was too little trouble for me and I dragged my heels reluctantly, putting off necessary chores until the last possible moment and even deferring some for another day.
5. I fail to see why the association are dragging their heels on this.
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