See on the back burner in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
Download JSON data for on the back burner meaning in English (2.9kB)
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "prepositional phrase",
"head": "on the back burner"
},
"expansion": "on the back burner",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"head": "on the back burner"
},
"expansion": "on the back burner",
"name": "en-PP"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "prep_phrase",
"senses": [
{
"antonyms": [
{
"word": "on the front burner"
}
],
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Polish links with redundant wikilinks",
"parents": [
"Links with redundant wikilinks",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "That project is on the back burner until we deal with higher priorities.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2023 March 14, Alexandra Jacobs, “Your Annoying Roommate Is Slaying on TikTok”, in The New York Times",
"text": "After some years sweating on the back burner of show business, Ms. Brier, 28, has found instant success on the social media platform of the moment, TikTok.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Not immediate; inactive; receiving or requiring less than full or regular attention."
],
"id": "en-on_the_back_burner-en-prep_phrase-U8YR7~8k",
"links": [
[
"immediate",
"immediate"
],
[
"inactive",
"inactive"
],
[
"full",
"full"
],
[
"regular",
"regular"
],
[
"attention",
"attention"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(idiomatic) Not immediate; inactive; receiving or requiring less than full or regular attention."
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "not immediate",
"word": "op een laag pitje"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "not immediate",
"word": "hautumassa"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "not immediate",
"word": "hyllyllä"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "not immediate",
"word": "au second plan"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "not immediate",
"word": "en veilleuse"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "not immediate",
"word": "en attente"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "not immediate",
"word": "en pause"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "not immediate",
"word": "auf Sparflamme"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "not immediate",
"word": "in secondo piano"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "not immediate",
"word": "na drugi plan"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "not immediate",
"word": "em banho-maria"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "not immediate",
"word": "på sparlåga"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "En-au-on the back burner.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d4/En-au-on_the_back_burner.ogg/En-au-on_the_back_burner.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/En-au-on_the_back_burner.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"word": "on the back burner"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "prepositional phrase",
"head": "on the back burner"
},
"expansion": "on the back burner",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"head": "on the back burner"
},
"expansion": "on the back burner",
"name": "en-PP"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "prep_phrase",
"senses": [
{
"antonyms": [
{
"word": "on the front burner"
}
],
"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English idioms",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English prepositional phrases",
"English terms with audio links",
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples",
"Polish links with redundant wikilinks"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "That project is on the back burner until we deal with higher priorities.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2023 March 14, Alexandra Jacobs, “Your Annoying Roommate Is Slaying on TikTok”, in The New York Times",
"text": "After some years sweating on the back burner of show business, Ms. Brier, 28, has found instant success on the social media platform of the moment, TikTok.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Not immediate; inactive; receiving or requiring less than full or regular attention."
],
"links": [
[
"immediate",
"immediate"
],
[
"inactive",
"inactive"
],
[
"full",
"full"
],
[
"regular",
"regular"
],
[
"attention",
"attention"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(idiomatic) Not immediate; inactive; receiving or requiring less than full or regular attention."
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "En-au-on the back burner.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d4/En-au-on_the_back_burner.ogg/En-au-on_the_back_burner.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/En-au-on_the_back_burner.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "not immediate",
"word": "op een laag pitje"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "not immediate",
"word": "hautumassa"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "not immediate",
"word": "hyllyllä"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "not immediate",
"word": "au second plan"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "not immediate",
"word": "en veilleuse"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "not immediate",
"word": "en attente"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "not immediate",
"word": "en pause"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "not immediate",
"word": "auf Sparflamme"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "not immediate",
"word": "in secondo piano"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "not immediate",
"word": "na drugi plan"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "not immediate",
"word": "em banho-maria"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "not immediate",
"word": "på sparlåga"
}
],
"word": "on the back burner"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-26 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (93a6c53 and 21a9316). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.