Possible Clues:

• Puts off to another time, a meeting perhaps
• Stops sitting
• Retires with everyone's favourite vessels after every other raid
• Takes a break from a meeting
• Perhaps how a disc jockey rises round the vessels
• A disc jockey, so laid back when inhaling pot, is off-putting
• Postpones or breaks off temporarily
• Desperate Dan's accepted 24 hours in Paris and retires
• Breaks up the vessels at last
• Postpones or breaks off temporarily, maybe a court hearing