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откладывать в долгий ящик stresses
gen.	shelve; pigeon-hole; pigeonhole; table; dally (обыкн. dally out, dally off); lay on a shelf; lay on a shelve; procrastinate (over something Anglophile); keep putting off (Anglophile); place on a shelf (Alex Lilo); lay on the shelf (Alex Lilo); dally off; put into cold storage (Anglophile); put aside (Alex Lilo); put things off (DocGallifrey)
Игорь Миг	dilly-dally; put off (Он просил не откладывать заявление в долгий ящик, дать ему ход сегодня же – He asked me not to put off dealing with the petition but to get it in process that very day (Michele Berdy))
amer.	keep on ice
busin.	shelve a motion
dipl.	shelve something (bigmaxus); put off something (bigmaxus)
dipl., amer.	table a motion
Gruzovik, fig.	put off indefinitely
idiom.	hang up one's hat; put something on the long finger (Irish Baxter); have something take a backseat (Ася Кудрявцева)
inf.	hang up; lock in the old oak chest (Tamara vSP); shunt; kick into touch (moebiuspenguin); kick a ball out of play (moebiuspenguin)
Makarov.	dally out; lay upon a shelf; put upon a shelf; put on a shelf

откладывать в долгий ящик: 30 phrases in 9 subjects

American usage, not spelling	3
Cliche / convention	1
General	11
Idiomatic	5
Informal	1
Makarov	3
Mass media	2
Proverb	3
Rhetoric	1