Talk:kick into the long grass

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"classic long-grass tactic"[edit]

This recent usage in a national newspaper suggests that the term "long grass" might be used outside phrases like "kick into...":

  • 2021, Boris Johnson has utterly failed to back up his anti-woke rhetoric with action (in The Sunday Telegraph, 9 December)
    Take the ultimate experience of BLM. In response to the outcry, Ministers commissioned a report into “Race and ethnic disparities” in the UK, a classic long-grass tactic.

Equinox 21:12, 16 January 2022 (UTC)Reply

Equinox, there is a use in Wikipedia:FRIN, too, which also seems to use a slightly different sense (pointless waste as well as postponement). HLHJ (talk) 21:22, 13 February 2022 (UTC)Reply