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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 |