front burner

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Noun[edit]

front burner (plural front burners)

  1. (figurative) A state of high priority.
    • 2001, Susan Stryker, Queer Pulp, page 11:
      At a moment in American history when homosexuality was already a front-burner issue, Kinsey's report added fuel to the fire.

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