Did you perhaps mean one of these? backbone, backbones
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- From back + burner. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Ticking over on the backburner is Riven Kingdom, which I will get back to on Tuesday, provided I have in fact finished proofing the galleys by Monday night.”
“The later comment "Sometimes a student can get frustrated over a teacher's crits and question their knowledge and expertise -- if people knew what teachers were capable of early on, this line of thinking would be in the backburner" is fine - but what evidence does a portfolio show?”
“Another recommendation of note that has been put on the backburner is the development of a deep and liquid corporate debt market.”
“I cannot count the number of times I put Jesus on the "backburner" for something I considered more important.”
“It becomes a weird sort-of "backburner" achievement.”
“..& ant1...even if you 'backburner' those 12yr olds for 4 full years, you know, 'til they're like legal maybe, yer still gonna be a bit of a sic fuk...”
“However, as marriage went backburner amidst the gubernatorial campaign, Queer Rising spent its spring chasing down New York archbishop Timothy Dolan for his open stances degrading gay marriage and its summer vacations in D.C., chained to the White House gate -- then to each other in a DC jail -- until Don't Ask, Don't Tell was repealed last fall.”
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“Rather than exhaust myself during the summer, I scheduled a week off in June to decompress as well as work on those “pet projects” that had been put on the backburner.”
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“Having kids would be put on the backburner for now.”
“But I have a feeling MSM and the Politics of this will be on the backburner.”
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