hot potato
Example Sentences
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Now she is being entrusted with a true political hot potato.
From BBC • Aug. 31, 2023
It's also a regressive approach similar to the hot potato tossing seen in very special episodes of 1980s and 1990s TV where reproductive choices were acknowledged but never discussed in detail.
From Salon • Aug. 20, 2023
Until then, they seem destined to stay a transit hot potato, passed in bursts from one private owner to another.
From Slate • Aug. 9, 2023
Greece’s foreign ministry made a ham-handed bid to get rid of the hot potato by sneaking Ocalan out of the country and trying to hide him in the Greek Embassy in Kenya.
From Seattle Times • May 31, 2023
In my pocket is a hot potato I took from dinner to warm my hands.
From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper
