“Put something on the back burner”in other languages

Same idea, different pictures

English moves the pot to the back of the stove to simmer. German pushes it onto the long bench, auf die lange Bank schieben, where files waited their turn.

Russian puts it in the long drawer, отложить в долгий ящик, linked by a popular story to a long petition box set up by a 17th-century tsar, whose contents took forever to be read.