back-burner
verbVerb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they back-burner | |
| he / she / it back-burners | |
| past simple back-burnered | |
| past participle back-burnered | |
| -ing form back-burnering |
- back-burner something (especially North American English, informal)
to leave an idea or a plan for a time, to be done or considered later 搁置；稍后处理 Our expansion plans will have to be back-burnered in the current economic climate. 在当前的经济形势下，我们的扩张计划将不得不推迟。