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back burner

noun as in reduced priority

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Denzel Washington in Philadelphia: “There was something like that [with Philadelphia] where I was on the back-burner.”

And while his Town & Country photo shoot nearly broke the Internet, modeling is on the back burner: “Acting is my first priority.”

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On this page you'll find 5 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to back burner, such as: abeyance, cold storage, limbo, and suspension.

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