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back-burner

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back-burner /ˈbakˌbərnər, ˈbækˌbərnər/
verb [with object] US postpone consideration of or action on:
a planned test of the new ale has been back-burnered.
– ORIGIN 1970s : from the phrase on the back burner.
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