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too-hard basket en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of too hard basket.
    • Common “time thieves” are procrastinating, wasting time on irrelevant tasks, failing to start a task, drifting off, being a perfectionist, and putting tasks into the too-hard basket. 2014, Dr. Stephen Boutcher, Belly Fat Breakthrough, →ISBN:
    • There was no discussion in the home Mosque, such stuff was put into the too-hard basket, and there was a complete ban on politics in the Deobandi Mosque in Dewsbury [leaving a convenient gap to be attended to elsewhere.] 2010, Gwyneth Findlow, Eye of the Beholder, →ISBN, page 31:
    • For two days they talk interior wall, but Karen is talking of breaking it off so that wall gets tossed into the too-hard basket and the boys' talk changes to finding a plumber who will connect it all up to the sewer pipes and not rave on about the legalities of a loo and washbasin in a bedroom. 2007, Joy Dettman, Henry's Daughter, →ISBN:

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