play for time

Verb

 * 1)  To delay a situation until one is prepared.
 * 2) * 29 February 2012, Aidan Foster-Carter, BBC News, “North Korea: The denuclearisation dance resumes”:
 * Two cheers for that, at best. The original six party talks ran, or rather crawled, from 2003 to 2008. It remains unclear if North Korea was ever serious – or just playing for time while working on HEU.

Translations

 * Finnish: pelata aikaa
 * German: Zeit schinden
 * Hungarian: húzza az időt
 * Russian:, выи́грывать вре́мя