Examples of 'hot potato' in a sentence
Meaning of "hot potato"
hot potato: Figuratively refers to a controversial or sensitive issue that is difficult to handle or deal with. It implies a topic or situation that people typically try to avoid or pass on to others due to its contentious nature or potential for causing trouble or conflict
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- A child's game in which players pass a ball or other item between them, with the object of avoiding being left holding the item when time expires.
- An awkward or delicate problem with which nobody wants to be associated.
How to use "hot potato" in a sentence
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Like this hot potato right here.
Hot potato game with inflamed gas.
This is a real hot potato ready to explode.
Feel like we are chasing the hot potato.
This hot potato is on his plate now.
You have become a politically hot potato.
Playing a hot potato with a bomb threat.
Do not let me leave like a hot potato.
This political hot potato is nothing new.
It found that too much of a hot potato.
Pass the hot potato right along.
But he dropped you like a hot potato.
Like playing hot potato with a time bomb.
You do not want this hot potato.
A hot potato does the trick.
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You have become a hot potato at work.
One hot potato is too much.
Just drop something like a hot potato.
With that hot potato in the sharp suit.
It has become a political one hot potato.
I have got hot potato pie.
Something like this is a political hot potato.
He therefore left the hot potato to his successor.
But the question is a political hot potato.
The hot potato is in the AGs hands now.
You have become a political hot potato.
You have got a hot potato in your hand.
D have dropped you like a hot potato.
The hot potato is on his roof.
They did not want the hot potato.
It is not a hot potato any more.
He will not address that hot potato.
Privacy is a hot potato at the moment.
It is played like the classic hot potato.
Playing hot potato with a grenade is not much of a strategy.
Realize that it had received a hot potato.
It seems you have a hot potato in your hands.
That could produce a political hot potato.
You want a hot potato to go with your sausage roll.
Almost feels like a game of hot potato.
I will take this hot potato off your hands.
But the idea is a political hot potato.
Hot potato hot potato.
Money then becomes like a hot potato.
Fishing is a political hot potato for the prime minister.
This is just a big game of hot potato.
Which is a hot potato in the world of entertainment gossip currently.
The case has been a political hot potato.
The big hot potato.
Joan dropped her husband like a hot potato.
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