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back burner

noun as in reduced priority

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After the 2024 general election, it seemed conversations about the Muslim war memorial were placed on the back burner.

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The problem is that in a four-party mandatory coalition like Stormont, making those decisions is even more complicated and more often than not, have ended up on the back burner.

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There he would attack the top of off stump with pace and nip while putting the variations on the back burner, as he would with the red ball.

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So these topics have gradually receded toward the back burner, along with his genuinely horrifying brainstorm about turning Gaza into a beach resort, without disappearing entirely.

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The only treatment offered to her was a Mirena coil, and she now feels she has been "put on the back burner" with no further medication.

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