cut bait

take time out

To temporarily suspend an activity in order to do something else.

buy time

To purposefully cause a delay, in order to achieve something else.

knock out of the box

To cause something to be replaced by something else.

pale in comparison

To appear small or unimportant in relation to something else.

buy a dog and bark oneself

To do something that one has hired someone else to do.

see which way the cat jumps

To delay taking action based on the outcome of something else.