Meaning of too-hard basket | Babel Free

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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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