Back-burner
"Back-burner" in a Sentence (2 examples)
Their dog was left on the back-burner once they had their baby.
Cops closed them all with a code: NHI. The unsolved crimes had been back-burnered until a reporter revealed that the letters stamped on the police files were shorthand for No Human Involved.
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