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What Is the Meaning of on the Back Burner Idiom

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noun

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.

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Origin of back burner

First recorded in 1945–50; from the custom in cooking of placing pots not requiring immediate attention toward the rear of the stove

Words nearby back burner

back boiler, backbone, backbreaker, backbreaking, backburn, back burner, back burner, on a, backcast, back catalogue, back channel, backchat

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2021

Words related to back burner

How to use back burner in a sentence

  • As GDP growth becomes a top priority, pollution control is on a back burner.

  • I've kind of been putting it on the back burner or putting my thoughts on anything like that on the back burner just to kind of stay in the moment and relishing the moment because more importantly I don't want this moment to pass me by.

  • Now that the hell of 2020 is officially wrapped, I'm taking a dive into some of the localized climate problems we left boiling on the back burner.

  • Nice-to-know details were pushed to the back burner in a rush to make sure the new vaccines would be safe and effective.

  • I vacuum-sealed the cheese in half-pound batches and froze the rolls and put the cheesesteak craving on a back burner.

  • Think back to the Bush-Kerry race of 2004, the Thrilla in Vanilla.

  • Back in New York, the slow pace and inward focus of her yoga practice was less fulfilling.

  • Music is a huge part of the tone of Black Dynamite overall—going back to the original 2009 movie on which the series is based.

  • The al Qaeda-linked gunmen shot back, but only managed to injure one officer before they were taken out.

  • So, Islamized teaching sends girls back home for marriage and housework, and remains exclusively for boys.

  • I waited three months more, in great impatience, then sent him back to the same post, to see if there might be a reply.

  • Ages back—let musty geologists tell us how long ago—'twas a lake, larger than the Lake of Geneva.

  • The boys were tumbling about, clinging to his legs, imploring that numerous things be brought back to them.

  • With a suffocating gasp, she fell back into the chair on which she sat, and covered her face with her hands.

  • She was holding the back of her chair with one hand; her loose sleeve had slipped almost to the shoulder of her uplifted arm.

British Dictionary definitions for back burner

noun

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

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

What Is the Meaning of on the Back Burner Idiom

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