What's the related idiom for this picture?

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What's the related idiom for this picture? I have no idea.
 

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"On the back burner" would be my guess.
 

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What about 'a watched pot never boils'?
 

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I'd go for "Put it on the back burner" too. It means to postpone something, usually to leave it alone for a while and then go back to thinking about (or doing something about it) later.
 

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The pot calling the kettle yellow.
 

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