dawdle over
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To waste time rather than work diligently on something. If you keep dawdling over this book report, you'll be up all night!
dawdle over something
to waste time when one should be doing a particular task; to loaf while doing something. Don't dawdle over your hamburger. The lunch period ends in two minutes. Don't dawdle over it. Get it done.