on the back burner en · ADP
Pronunciation
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Meanings
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(idiomatic) Not immediate; inactive; receiving or requiring less than full or regular attention.
That project is on the back burner until we deal with higher priorities.
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.
2023 March 14, Alexandra Jacobs, “Your Annoying Roommate Is Slaying on TikTok”, in The New York Times:
Antonyms
Translations (14)
es en segundo plano (not immediate) · fr en pause (not immediate) · de auf der Wartebank (not immediate) · fr en veilleuse (not immediate) · pt em banho-maria (not immediate) · pl na drugi plan (not immediate) · it in secondo piano (not immediate) · nl op een laag pitje (not immediate) · de auf Sparflamme (not immediate) · fr au second plan (not immediate) · fi hyllyllä (not immediate) · fr en attente (not immediate) · fi hautumassa (not immediate) · sv på sparlåga (not immediate)