Put on the Back Burner.
English
idiom
To set low priority; postpone for later.
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To set low priority; postpone for later.
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To put something off and treat it as less urgent for now.
When you put something on the back burner, you don't drop it — you decide it can wait.
The plan is always to come back to it later.
"Drop It"
—
To abandon something completely with no plan to return to it
"Shelve It"
—
To put something away indefinitely, often without intending to return
"Put on the Back Burner"
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Temporarily delaying something with the clear intention of returning to it later
Where are we with the website redesign?
On the back burner for now — the client launch took full priority.
Whatever happened to your novel?
On the back burner. Life got in the way. I'll get back to it.
Should we still do the trip this month?
Let's put it on the back burner — too much going on. Next quarter.
