Backburner

They had to put that project on the backburner until financing was arranged.

The Sahrawi conflict was put on the backburner.

There had been plans to extend electrification from Harrow to Rickmansworth. But when the First World War broke out in 1914, this and a new branch to Watford were placed on the backburner, along with further housing development.

"What I noticed was that my sadness and loneliness got backburnered," she told the BBC.