kick the can down the road

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Tanımlar (İngilizce)

  1. fiil To avoid or postpone a decision or action; to procrastinate.

    “Ronald Lehman, deputy assistant secretary of defense for strategic and theater nuclear bombs, said the United States was satisfied with its land-based deterrent for many years and "there was a tendency to kick the can down the road and not pay enough attention to its problems.”

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adjourn avert defer delay dilly-dally draw out extend forslow forestall forestay kick into the long grass postpone procrastinate prolong prorogue prorogate protract put off put on hold put on ice

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