on the back burner

English

Pronunciation

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Prepositional phrase

on the back burner

(idiomatic) Not immediate; inactive; receiving or requiring less than full or regular attention.
Antonym: on the front burner

That project is on the back burner until we deal with higher priorities.
- 2023 March 14, Alexandra Jacobs, “Your Annoying Roommate Is Slaying on TikTok”, in The New York Times‎:
  After some years sweating on the back burner of show business, Ms. Brier, 28, has found instant success on the social media platform of the moment, TikTok.

Translations

not immediate

Dutch: op een laag pitje
Finnish: hautumassa, hyllyllä
French: au second plan, en veilleuse, en attente (fr), en pause (fr)
German: auf Sparflamme
Italian: in secondo piano
Polish: na drugi plan
Portuguese: em banho-maria
Spanish: en segundo plano
Swedish: på sparlåga

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