dallying with

I see the USA dallying with autocracy and anti-democratic ideology — deplorable and chilling.

Or are they simply upset that their actions, ideas, and opinions have faced strong pushback from people who don’t see the humor in dallying with malignant Trumpist ideologies?

Darrah’s dallying with cowboys, desert rats and glitter queens around a seedy motel isn’t, itself, altogether new to modern opera stagings, but it felt fresh and right for this little-known score.

Living in a region scarred by industrial decline, Denfer voted socialist for years before dallying with the centre-right.

Reggie/Rodrigo is married to Elfrida but is dallying with the script fixer — that it was another writer, Elfrida thinks, “made the betrayal all the more bitter.”