He placed the cheese on the shelf and lifted his brows.
Before he left office Mr Bryce publicly sketched a scheme of his own for remodelling Irish University Education, but his scheme was quietly put on the shelf by his successor and received almost universal condemnation.
This is not some fancy business plan to go dusty on the shelf.
The more entrepreneurs fuss and fret over additional features, the more time is wasted with the product sitting on the shelf.
Granted, not all the fruit is sold in a ripened state, but a lot of the stuff on the shelf will already have ripened.
