to slow down; to impede; to make someone late / to delay; to postpone when something takes place; to put off

proposal / suggestion

to propose / to suggest

substance; essence

(informal) at its core; essentially

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend

a plan, planning, schedule, conception

to plan, to make a plan, to plot, to lay out