kick something into the long grass
to react to a difficult problem by doing something to make sure that people will forget about it rather than trying to solve it
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to react to a difficult problem by doing something to make sure that people will forget about it rather than trying to solve it
to ignore someone or something, or to refuse to consider them
to ignore or avoid unpleasant facts
to pretend that you have not noticed something or do not know about it, because you do not approve of it
verb
to ignore behaviour or an activity that is wrong, or to do nothing to stop it, so that you seem to approve of it
to pretend you do not notice something, because you should do something about it but you do not want to
to deliberately ignore something bad that is happening
to hide the truth about something by not telling what you know or by preventing other people from telling what they know
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