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Meanings of hot potato in English

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Usage of hot potato in English
1
Across the Tasman, and superannuation remains a political and economic hot potato.
Radio NZ
2
So they dropped me like a hot potato; never pestered me again.
A Simpleton
3
I know how a man looks when he's dropping a hot potato.
Cities in Flight
4
Large, crisp, hot potato chips make a pleasant change for dunking purposes.
The Complete Book of Cheese
5
At the moment Payzone is the hot potato of the industry.
The Irish Times
6
The Reserve Bank has tossed the housing hot potato back at the Government.
Radio NZ
7
Any intervention by Madrid in Catalonia's finances would prove a political hot potato.
Reuters
8
But then, the 'signature policy' was dropped like a hot potato.
News.com.au
9
But he seems to have dropped it again like the proverbial hot potato.
Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3
10
Alex was just as happy not to have that hot potato to handle.
Lightning
11
Investors dropped shares of Google like a hot potato this morning.
Wired
12
Jessica Chavez: Localization at Xseed is something like a game of hot potato.
Wired
13
More importantly, it turns Aramco stock into a political hot potato.
Reuters
14
Your people dropped you as if you were a hot potato.
The Shuttle
15
He will drop the property 'like a hot potato,' as the Irish say.
Self-Raised; Or, From the Depths
16
But drug prohibition is a hot potato that very few leaders will touch.
The Guardian
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Hot potato through the time
Hot potato across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Less common