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back-burner

 verb
     
back-burner , back‧bur‧ner [transitive] informal
to delay doing something, because it does not need your attention immediately or because it is not as important as other things that you need to do immediately:
Allison back-burnered her prestigious law career when she had a baby.
The project has been backburnered.
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