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kick the can down the road

idiom

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


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  1. 01

    bump in the road

    A setback or obstacle, especially one which is relatively minor.

  2. 02

    down the road, not across the street

    Of the technique for committing suicide, along the radial artery rather than across the wrist from side to side.

  3. 03

    Frog

    [Cockney slang]road

    via frog & toad

  4. 04

    get a kick out of

    To be delighted by; to be amused by.

  5. 05

    get the show on the road

    To begin or launch; to get going.

  6. 06

    go down that road

    To settle a way of doing something; do decide to do something in a particular way.

  7. 07

    go down the road

    To employ a way of doing something; to do something in a particular way.

  8. 08

    high road

    A course of action which is dignified, honourable, or respectable.

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