to while/dawdle wawy one's time / to sit around scratching oneself
Contexto
I felt dreadfully. But there was no help for it, so up stairs I went to my little room in the third floor, undressed myself as slowly as possible so as to kill time, and with a bitter sigh got between the sheets.
Tipo de fuente
Libro
Autor
Bryan Collier Short
Título de la fuente
Cast by Means of Figures: Herman Melville's Rhetorical Development