What's the difference between dilly and illy?

Dilly


Definition:

  • (n.) A kind of stagecoach.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When we had a morning practice session, and some players were a bit sluggish, he would call them out to the middle of the pitch and shout: ‘Dilly-ding, dilly-dong!’ When I read this story about Leicester, I just started laughing because all those funny moments with him came rushing back into my head.” That Ranieri has a sense of humour is hardly new information.
  • (2) If he comes back it’s like he’s got away with it.” In the club’s superstore, Zak Dilly and his girlfriend Hannah Betts – who have just chosen a babygrow for their niece with the slogan “Mummy taught me ABC, Daddy taught me SUFC” – are clear about whose side they are on.
  • (3) [Ranieri] could see that mentally we were still in bed, so he shouted: ‘Dilly-ding, dilly-dong!
  • (4) Inevitably, it has provoked distrust in the rest of the continent: in which the chancellor's costly dilly-dallying during the debt crisis, led to remarks about a third world war in the British press.
  • (5) INA Facebook Twitter Pinterest Dilli Haat market stall.
  • (6) He picks out Liam Lawrence, who dilly-dallies then passes when he probably should have had a shot from distance.
  • (7) All it took was to listen out for the “dilly‑ding, dilly-dong” of Ranieri’s alarm bell.
  • (8) Really, no one knows what happened in that room.” Players get away with the same or worse all the time, Dilly adds.
  • (9) He wouldn't necessarily have chosen that path, but Glamorgan have dilly-dallied over the negotiations.
  • (10) For weeks now, Hollande has led the European response to the Syrian crisis, pursuing a hawkish approach to Damascus in stark contrast to the dilly-dallying of France's continental allies and neighbours.
  • (11) One year it was the “dilly‑ding, dilly-dong” bell, and another it was a golden toy Ferrari – a riff on the fact that one newspaper had described Cagliari as a sports car racing through the lower divisions.
  • (12) After Danny Drinkwater told of the manager’s habit since the start of the season of ringing an imaginary bell to stress how important it is for players to stay alert – with his regular cry of “dilly-ding, dilly-dong” becoming a catchphrase the squad now use cheerfully themselves – Ranieri revealed the gifts he gave his players at Christmas.
  • (13) That’s why we organised these events.” Under a canopy of glittering red hearts hung to celebrate Valentine’s Day, the flashmob handed out leaflets and danced to a song specially written for One Billion Rising, called Jago Dilli Jago or Awaken Delhi, asking people to end the silence around sexual violence.
  • (14) He changed tack, led the party, resigned, dilly-dallied between Westminster and Holyrood, then came back to fill a talent and charisma gap.
  • (15) At Christmas, he gave us each a bell with ‘Cagliari Calcio, dilly-ding, dilly-dong’ and his name on it.
  • (16) But be warned, Claudio, I nominated Garry Monk for this award last year … Amy Lawrence Dilly ding, dilly dong all the way.
  • (17) She's actually rather nice, Dasha, somewhere underneath her careful circumspection, her desire not to betray her boyfriend, her politely masked impatience with those who think she's dilly-dallying at projects she really cares about.
  • (18) Danny Drinkwater provoked much amusement among the British press corps last month, when he revealed the manager’s technique of saying “dilly-ding, dilly-dong” to restore focus whenever energy levels start to dip during training .
  • (19) 9.37pm GMT 90+3 min: Giaccherini finds himself in space down the left on the edge of the Chelsea penalty area, but dilly-dallies too long, fails to put in a corss and tries to stab the ball forward towards towards Altidore instead.
  • (20) Dilli Haat , a two-minute walk from the station, is a collection of more than 150 stalls selling artisan goods from across India.

Illy


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Simonette Illi, a spokeswoman for Daimler, told the Guardian that the trucks should be available for purchase “from the middle of the coming decade (around 2025)” and that it’s important to have it available “at an attractive price”.
  • (2) For a morphometric analysis the bone marrow was sampled from the sternum, ala ossis illi and spine.
  • (3) In reality, you can now admire photos of the fairtrade coffee cultures of East Timor and Rwanda, then go and have an Illy espresso at the sponsored coffee bar.
  • (4) Illi's model for motion of the sacrum was based partially on the function of this ligament.
  • (5) These coordinators have been trained … to give a warm welcome consistent in all branches.” The types of free drinks, he went on, “are selected to be … sympathetic to our brand.” At today’s Notting Hill Foxtons, across the road from the original site, shiny tins of Italian Illy coffee stand on a shelf in a perfectly spaced line.
  • (6) A superior intracapsular ligament of the sacroiliac joint (Illi's ligament) is noted with a 75% frequency in dissected cadavers.

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