Sentence examples for put it on ice from inspiring English sources

"put it on ice" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It means to set something aside or delay something for a period of time. It can also mean to cool or preserve something. Example: The negotiations for the new project have hit a roadblock. Let's put it on ice for a few days and revisit it with fresh perspectives.

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Our man said to put it on ice.

"The nurse told me to grab her leg and put it on ice in the cooler and that is what I did," he added.

Now, I don't want the ice cream to melt, so I'll put it on ice". Meanwhile, the clock is ticking on our promised delivery time.

"When Copenhagen failed to deliver what I had hoped, I thought maybe I should put it on ice and stick around for a while to see it through.

After they remove the kidney from Buell on Dec. 29, the surgeons will wrap it up, put it on ice and rush it over to another surgery room, where they will sew it inside Kelvin's body.

I was beginning another contracted book at the time, but put it on ice because I had an immodest conviction that I was the writer who knew most about this subject, and wasn't about to let anyone else do a botched job.

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She thought her host meant her to preserve the rubber in the girdle by putting it on ice.

"I think if an Eskimo wrote a play," the playwright James Kirkwood says, "he'd put it on an ice floe and push it toward Mike Nichols".

And, during the trial, it became clear that the government knew at the time of the rescue that it was, as the Fed's outside counsel put it, "on thin ice" legally.

"Not many years ago, a mayor said if you want to get rid of a car, put it on the ice," said Solve Stubberud, general secretary of the Norwegian Divers Federation.

"About a yard or so from the dog, he fell in but managed to get hold of the dog and put it on the ice.

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