0 If something is on the back burner, it is temporarily not being dealt with or considered, especially because it is not urgent or important: --
1 not being done now, but left to be considered in the future: --
Their complaints have definitely been pushed to the back burner.
For the first time ever, oil was placed on the back burner as the leading trading commodity in the world.
It now appears that it has been put on the back burner.
The problem is not on the back burner.
I do not believe for a moment that it is adequate simply to put the problem on the back burner.
To put it bluntly the matter has been put on the back burner.
Better still, it is no longer sacrilegious to ask the question: should the whole project not be put on the back burner?
The real solution —a major increase in resources —is put on the back burner.
It has not been put on the back burner, and we shall seek the earliest legislative opportunity to push ahead with it.
