Dic/ Kick the can down the road

출처 1: http://grammarist.com/usage/kick-the-can-down-the-road/

^Kick the can down the road^, a ubiqitous phrase in American politics over the last few years, is not a reference to the game of kick the can. It refers to the practice of kicking a can ahead of oneself while walking along a road. So, metaphorically, the phrase means ^to defer conclusive action with a short-term solution^.

• Hancock has vowed that his administration won't continue to "kick the can down the road." 
• "Members are overwhelmingly disappointed in the Senate's decision to just 'kick the can down the road' for two months," the aide said.
• We can't kick the can down the road because we've run out of road.
• The more they kick the can down the road, the worse the eventual correction will be.
• Is it the tendency, demonstrated again over the weekend and into this week to kick the can down the road?
• With that, I must go forward and kick the can down the road into the brave new year.

출처 2: https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/kick+the+can+down+the+road

Especially in politics, to postpone or defer a definitive action, decision, or solution, usually by effecting a short-term one instead.

• It looks as though congress is goint to kick the can down the road again on the debt ceiling issue, but they'll have to find a lasting solution eventually.

출처 3: https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/kick_the_can_down_the_road

put off confronting a difficult issue or making an important decision, typically on a continuing basis.

• I appreciate that he doesn't want to raise taxes, but sooner or later you have to stop kicking the can down the road.