too-hard basket

A form of too hard basket — A category of items that should be done but which are avoided because they are difficult.

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Meanings

nountoo-hard basket (plural too-hard baskets)

plural too-hard baskets

  1. alternativeAlternative form of too hard basket.

    Common “time thieves” are procrastinating, wasting time on irrelevant tasks, failing to start a task, drifting off, being a perfectionist, and putting tasks into the too-hard basket.

    2014, Dr. Stephen Boutcher, Belly Fat Breakthrough, →ISBN
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    For two days they talk interior wall, but Karen is talking of breaking it off so that wall gets tossed into the too-hard basket and the boys' talk changes to finding a plumber who will connect it all up to the sewer pipes and not rave on about the legalities of a loo and washbasin in a bedroom.

    2007, Joy Dettman, Henry's Daughter, →ISBN

    There was no discussion in the home Mosque, such stuff was put into the too-hard basket, and there was a complete ban on politics in the Deobandi Mosque in Dewsbury [leaving a convenient gap to be attended to elsewhere.]

    2010, Gwyneth Findlow, Eye of the Beholder, →ISBN, page 31
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APA

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MLA

“too-hard basket.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/too-hard%20basket. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

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