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词汇 kick-into-the-long-grass
释义

kick something into the long grass


idiom
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.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

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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