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Hot Potato

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Noun

1. hot potato

a difficult situation

Example Sentences:
'he dropped the topic like a hot potato'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Hot Potato

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noun

slang

an awkward or delicate matter

slang

a delicate or awkward matter

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Hot Potato

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US, Informal

a troubling or seemingly insoluble problem, issue, etc. that no one wants to handle

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Hot Potato

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n.
Informal

A problem that is so controversial or sensitive that those handling it risk unpleasant consequences: gun control—a political hot potato.

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