1. back burner - Noun
2. back burner - Adjective
3. back burner - Verb
reduced priority
Source: WordNetback-burner
The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner. Martha Reeves
Marriage brings up all the things I pushed to the back burner - the fears, the mistrust, the doubts, the insecurities. It's like opening Pandora's box. Jennifer Aniston
My stand-up has a lot of performance in it, and I loved doing it so much that, after years, I put the idea of having a show on the back burner. Cristela Alonzo
When you have kids, there's a tendency to put the marriage stew on the back burner and give it a quick stir now and then. But it's important to remember why you had children with this person. Allison Pearson
With 'Suite Life,' I had three years to sit a little bit on the back burner and learn with less pressure. Debby Ryan
I very much regret that our administration has pushed the whole issue of Kosovo to the back burner. Eliot Engel