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Kick the can down the road

verb, slang

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Verb
  1. 1
    To avoid or postpone a decision or action; to procrastinate. idiomatic, informal

    "Ronald Lehman, deputy assistant secretary of defense for strategic and theater nuclear bombs, said the United States was satisfied with its land-based deterrent for many years and "there was a tendency to kick the can down the road and not pay enough attention to its problems."

Etymology

Attested as an activity of idle urban youths since the late 19th century. The modern sense of procrastinate dates from the 1980s.

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