on the back burner

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   left for the present time, to be done or considered later

   and I just thought I'm just gonna put acting on the back burner.

In the movies · 1

• and I just thought I'm just gonna put acting on the back burner.Be Here Now2015
• On the damn back burnerIn the Heights2021

Learn it in full scenes

• Be Here Now2015
  • Andy Shows His Kids the Sword
  • Andy Wins the Role of Spartacus
  • Andy Whitfield's Cancer Returns

From the same entry

• at the back of your mind
• the back of beyond
• back to back
• back to front
• be glad, to see the back of
• behind back
• be on back
• break the back of
• get back up
• get off back
• have back
• have your back to the wall

More idioms

• on the face of it
• pat on the back
• take into consideration
• be on a roll
• nothing of the kind
• under pressure
• close by
• out of your hands
• that's that
• every penny
• in black and white
• have to hand it to