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What does back-burner mean?

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Adjective
  1. (idiomatic) Having low urgency; not currently important.
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Alas, the forensics are still on the back-burner.
If there's no way to sell a particular good idea, then you put it on the back-burner and look at something else.
You put your own grief on the back-burner and tease and bully the sniveller.
The Europa League will go on the back-burner until it resumes in February.
Two jobs that had been on the back-burner for far too long needed tackling.
Third, we may do well to put history of religion on the back-burner and focus for a while on the meanings of our texts.

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