Kick into the long grass

Generally, land claims had been treated on an ad hoc and haphazard basis, without any systemic absorption much less systematic response. The prevalent attitude was at best one of indifference or of inclination to kick into the long grass.

These problems have all needed resolving for years. But all involved too much risk (either for franchisees or the Government), and so they kept getting kicked into the long grass for being 'too difficult'.

However, in practice it is far easier to use procrastination to 'kick something into the long grass' than it is to write something off all together (unless of course it is a problem that solves itself, as we have already explored).

Otherwise they can be kicked into the long grass for action later, preferably by the next government.

Given the growth in participation opportunities for women and girls of all ages and the demise of what could truly be said to be 'male-only' sports, s.44 had been kicked into the long grass long before it, like the rest of the 1975 Act, was also repealed by the 2010 legislation.

There have been signs, post-Brexit, of a concerted effort by government ministers to downplay — not to say kick into the long grass — earlier Tory promises to reduce net migration numbers to 'tens of thousands'.

These kick-ass and largely unknown figures in a history too often kicked into the long grass.

Never can a kick into the long grass have been more clearly signalled.

But I could find nothing in the parliamentary record of the committee reporting back to the House and assume that, as now, referral to committee meant a kick into the long grass.

After gaining power, veteran political observers expected to see Labour give most of these proposals a "kick into the long grass”: endless rounds of study, committee hearings, expert counsel, etc.