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December 17[edit]

"To take out of the fridge"[edit]

I found this phrase in a title of an article that I need to translate ("Sacarán del refri iniciativas...") but I'm sure that is just a literal meaning and it is incorrect in English ("they'll take out of the fridge initiatives"). In the sense that's being used in Spanish, it means that the initiatives were on standby and they'll resume discussing them. Is there any fixed phrase for this? Because I don't want to give it another sense unless I have no other choice. Thanks in advance. (CC) Tbhotch^™ 04:23, 17 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

How about "they'll take the initiatives out of cold storage" ? Doug butler (talk) 05:13, 17 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I second that. It is an English idiom.^[1][2][3] --Lambiam 09:49, 17 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, chill thy feminist beans, dude: [4]. Martinevans123 (talk) 11:16, 17 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Things like this are sometimes "put on the back burner", to be taken off it when they return to the active agenda. Britmax (talk) 11:14, 17 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Uses are about evenly split between "take [something] off the back burner" and "move [something] to the front burner". An advantage of the cold-storage translation is that it is based on the same metaphor. --Lambiam 06:17, 18 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I imagined there was an idiom for it. (CC) Tbhotch^™ 17:39, 23 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]