To delay taking action based on the outcome of 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.
the joke is on someone
Someone is the butt of a joke or is experiencing a negative outcome, e…
otherwise engaged
busy doing something else