Definition of on the back burner

on the back burner    

adjective

• of low priority. Contrast with "on the front burner".

  Since we've found out the auditors are coming, the invoices are on the back burner.

  Look, right now he's on the back burner; I don't have the time for him.

  When prioritizing, some things must be placed on the back burner.

  With this deadline coming up, I've put that project on the back burner.

  • See more words with the same meaning: low priority.

  Last edited on Oct 25 2011. Submitted by JoAnn from Denver, CO, USA on May 21 1999.

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Other terms relating to 'low priority':
on the bottom burner	Definitions include: of low priority.

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back 40	Definitions include: wild or rough terrain adjacent to a developed area.
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back at you	Definitions include: and the same to you.
back-catalog	Definitions include: obscure.
back-catalogue	Definitions include: obscure.
back door	Definitions include: the anus.
back door man	Definitions include: the man who a cheating spouse sees on the side.
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back end	Definitions include: the anus.
back forty	Definitions include: a place that is far away.
back in the day	Definitions include: at some time before the present.
back in the saddle	Definitions include: having resumed an activity that one had previously stopped performing.
back off	Definitions include: large buttocks.
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burner	Definitions include: a handgun.
cook on all four burners	Definitions include: to be proceeding well or rapidly.
on the bottom burner	Definitions include: of low priority.
on the front burner	Definitions include: a priority.
rice burner	Definitions include: A sport motorcycle from Japan.
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ball on	Definitions include: to attempt to attract verbally; "hit on".
bang on	Definitions include: to test something before it is released or presented.
barge in on	Definitions include: See barge in.
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3 sheets to the wind	Definitions include: extremely intoxicated
411, the	Definitions include: information.
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about the size of it	Definitions include: a good estimate.
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across the board	Definitions include: inclusive.
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