back-pocket

(adj.) a piece of analysis or area of thinking that is prepared or reviewed as a cautionary measure, without expectation that it will be used in discussion, but that can nonetheless be whipped out at a moment’s notice; a similar idea is captured in the noun construction, as in: “Keep those slides in your back pocket for the meeting”; unfortunately many items consigned to the back pocket remain there, never to justify the effort expended in creating them

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