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give it to someone straight
vs
shilly-shally
give it to someone straight
shilly-shally
verb
To vacillate.
To procrastinate.
adj
Indecisive; wavering.
noun
Indecision; irresolution.
How often have the words
give it to someone straight
and
shilly-shally
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
)