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on the back burner 

Postponed or deferred, as in a low-priority task.
It wasn't April 15th yet so I put the taxes on the back burner.

Put on the back burner

What guys or girls do to people they're undecided about by stringing them along making occasional contact but not consistently acting interested.
I knew I was put on the back burner when he asked me out for the following weekend, then seemed confused when I called a few days later to confirm.

The Back Burner Method 

Method of maintaining a multitude of girls at the same time in order to "pick and choose" which one you want to peruse or have as a primary. Start with one girl; talk to her and gain her interest. Then, if you become bored of girl #1, put her on the "back burner," a state of communication in which you are stringing a girl casually along by keeping her interested. At the same time repeat this process with another girl(while you still have one on the burner) until bored again. Repeat this process until a satisfactory number if girls are on your back burner. You now have a plethora of girl available to be your "primary" girl.
1. Sorry I cannot hang out with you I'm currently busy, but another time for sure. A.K.A. The Back Burner Method

2. I think you are very attractive, and you are really cool, but I'm not in a place for a commitment at the moment.

3. No.

on the front burner

If they don't have the task of repairing the car on the front burner, then we will be in a difficult situation.

the bladder burner

when you need a poo soo badly that it burns your bladder. Then you try to get it out of your system but all you can manage is a turtle neck.
"cor, last night jim i had the bladder burner. hurt like hell and i was on the toilet for `13 hours trying to get it out"
the bladder burner by LiamBest February 23, 2009

Burner on the network 

A term made famous by Donut Operator as described by a civilian notifying local police that there was unauthorized device linked to his home internet
The burner on the network was my neighbor Kyle. He is such a crook.
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