kick into the long grass

• push into the long grass
• punt into the long grass

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kick into the long grass (third-person singular simple present kicks into the long grass, present participle kicking into the long grass, simple past and past participle kicked into the long grass)

1. (transitive) To postpone action on something.
   • 2020 May 6, Stefanie Foster, “Comment: One chance for a new order”, in Rail, page 3:

     These problems have all needed resolving for years. But all involved too much risk (either for franchisees or the Government), and so they kept getting kicked into the long grass for being 'too difficult'.

• kick the can down the road
• ostrich politics

• “kick something into the long grass” (US) / “kick something into the long grass” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
• “kick something into the long grass”, in Collins English Dictionary.