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The phrase "back on the shelf" is correct and can be used in written English.
It means to place something back onto a shelf after it was taken off. Example: After browsing through the books, I put the one I had finished back on the shelf and picked out another one to read.
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Thirty-one percent of us put an item back on the shelf if we aren't carrying enough cash.
He put it back on the shelf.
Paralyzed with indecision, I shoved it back on the shelf.
Anyhow, the football went back on the shelf.
"It went back on the shelf," Dr. Jordan said.
Within a year Keynes was back on the shelf.
The Jeyes Fluid was put back on the shelf.
I go: "Well, you're going back on the shelf".
What should I put back on the shelf?
She put the book back on the shelf, and left.
They couldn't find my book because someone put it back on the shelf".
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