renvoyer aux calendes grecques: suggested translations

delay, forestall, postpone, postpone indefinitely, put aside, put off, put on hold, put on ice, put on the back burner

• renvoyer aux calendes grecques la mise sur pied d’une procédure / delay setting up a procedure
• renvoyer aux calendes grecques la mise en œuvre de ces initiatives / forestall implementation of these initiatives
• renvoyer aux calendes grecques le projet de recherche / postpone the research project (postpone the research project indefinitely)
• renvoyer aux calendes grecques le travail sur la politique / put aside work on the policy
• renvoyer aux calendes grecques la décision portant sur la création d’un programme national / put off the decision to create a national program
• renvoyer la réunion aux calendes grecques / put the meeting on hold
• renvoyer aux calendes grecques le réaménagement de l’édifice / put the refurbishment of the building on ice (on the back burner)

Note: The adverb indefinitely can be added to any of these English equivalents, as in the example for postpone/postpone indefinitely.