B2idiombusinessIELTS-friendly
on the back burner
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(of a plan) delayed because it is not important right now
Usually 'put something on the back burner'. The image is a cooker: the back ring is for pots that can wait. The opposite is 'a top priority'.
In context
We've put the new website on the back burner until after Tet.
My plans to study abroad are on the back burner while my dad is ill.
More idioms about business
- a ballpark figurea rough number that is close to the real amount
- a big playera powerful and important person or company in a field
- a bottlenecka point where progress slows because too much has to pass through it
- a deal breakera fact or condition that makes you refuse to accept an agreement
- a dog-eat-dog worlda situation where people compete hard and will harm others to succeed