back-burner
verb🔊/ˌbæk ˈbɜːnə(r)/
🔊/ˌbæk ˈbɜːrnər/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they back-burner | 🔊/ˌbæk ˈbɜːnə(r)/ 🔊/ˌbæk ˈbɜːrnər/ |
| he / she / it back-burners | 🔊/ˌbæk ˈbɜːnəz/ 🔊/ˌbæk ˈbɜːrnərz/ |
| past simple back-burnered | 🔊/ˌbæk ˈbɜːnəd/ 🔊/ˌbæk ˈbɜːrnərd/ |
| past participle back-burnered | 🔊/ˌbæk ˈbɜːnəd/ 🔊/ˌbæk ˈbɜːrnərd/ |
| -ing form back-burnering | 🔊/ˌbæk ˈbɜːnərɪŋ/ 🔊/ˌbæk ˈbɜːrnərɪŋ/ |
- 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搁浅。