- Basketball
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- Nov 07, 2020
Burner Quotes
Some plans just wait their turn.
Most of these quotes lean on the idiom 'back burner' for a career or passion set aside for something more urgent, like basketball, marriage, or survival. Pair with Back for more on delayed plans.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got married very young and put my career on the back burner for the most part because that's what you did in those days. I've never been a pushy, ambitious type of person anyway.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like, big city or small town, you can relate to following your parents' footsteps or putting your own dreams on the back burner or vices that we get caught up in - that whole cycle. That's not just a small-town thing. That's a life thing.
- Abrupt
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- Nov 07, 2020
At first, I was able to use a Bunsen burner attached to my mother's gas stove, but the use of the kitchen as a laboratory came to an abrupt end when a minor explosion involving hydrogen sulphide spattered the newly painted decor and changed the colour from blue to dirty green!
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
As first lady, Hillary Clinton spent the early months of her husband's administration drafting healthcare-reform legislation, only to see it put on the back burner by the North American Free Trade Agreement.
- Emission
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- Nov 07, 2020
The visible and near-ultraviolet emission spectrum of the CH radical has been known ever since spectra of an ordinary Bunsen burner have been taken.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
With 'Suite Life,' I had three years to sit a little bit on the back burner and learn with less pressure.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Religion has for too long been placed on the back burner of history, when it may be one of the driving forces in history.
- Broken
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- Nov 07, 2020