Meaning of too-hard basket | Babel Free

Definitions

Noun. [B2]

Examples

“For two days they talk interior wall, but Karen is talking of breaking it off so that wall gets tossed into the too-hard basket and the boys' talk changes to finding a plumber who will connect it all up to the sewer pipes and not rave on about the legalities of a loo and washbasin in a bedroom.”

“There was no discussion in the home Mosque, such stuff was put into the too-hard basket, and there was a complete ban on politics in the Deobandi Mosque in Dewsbury [leaving a convenient gap to be attended to elsewhere.]”

“Common “time thieves” are procrastinating, wasting time on irrelevant tasks, failing to start a task, drifting off, being a perfectionist, and putting tasks into the too-hard basket.”

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