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  • I did have one minor hiccough where the tension decided to go do-lally for no particular reason (i.e. wasn't at a bobbin change, etc) but I did catch it before I'd sewed too much, and of course, when the tension goes odd, it's often easy to unpick as one of the threads is just lying there with big loops around it ...

    One Hawaiian Down... katelnorth 2008

  • My reckoning is that either Sony have all gone do-lally, or the head of the PS department is a Nintendo fanboy and so is sabotaging the PS3

    EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - This is Living Trailer “Real Time” ad for the PS3 2006

  • Military records suggest he was treated in a sanatorium in the Indian town of Deolali, from where the slang term "do-lally" originates.

    The Daily Record - Home 2010

  • Military records suggest he was treated in a sanatorium in the Indian town of Deolali, from where the slang term "do-lally" originates.

    The Daily Record - Home 2010

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