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on the shelf

adjective as in deferred

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“But without great storytelling and storytellers, it will be just a tool on the shelf. However, those with talent are in for a creative awakening.”

But as a father of young children, “I would rather a battery that only lasted a year on the shelf ... but didn’t kill my kid when they swallowed it.”

On the shelf in front of him during the abuse were adult nappies used to stem blood, alongside a leather-bound Bible.

From BBC

In 2021 — after years of sitting on the shelf during the Trump administration — the Biden administration made the proposal a top priority.

Despite repeated reassurances from Abbasi, Strong, writer Gabriel Sherman and actor Sebastian Stan, who plays Trump, that “The Apprentice” was not a political polemic but a character study, it seemed plausible, as recently as August, that the film would remain on the shelf until after next month’s election, if not indefinitely.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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