back burner
a condition of low priority or temporary deferment (usually used in the phrase on the back burner): Put other issues on the back burner until after the election.
Origin of back burner
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How to use back burner in a sentence
Denzel Washington in Philadelphia: “There was something like that [with Philadelphia] where I was on the back-burner.”
Bill Murray’s Words of Wisdom: On Comedy, the Greatness of In-N-Out, and Searching For Great Love | Marlow Stern | October 10, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd while his Town & Country photo shoot nearly broke the Internet, modeling is on the back burner: “Acting is my first priority.”
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British Dictionary definitions for back burner
on the back burner put aside for the time being, as a subject that is not of immediate concern but that may be activated later; postponed
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