词汇 | kick-into-the-long-grass |
释义 | kick something into the long grassidiom UKinformal to delay dealing with something, especially because you want people to forget about it: It is disgraceful that the Treasury had kicked the task force's report into the long grass. We are not prepared to see this issue kicked into the long grass. Delaying and wasting time ado busywork buy timeidiom carry something over dally gridlock hold up inefficiency inefficiently kept kick push retard retardation set someone back (something) shelve sit sit on something spin stall |
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