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Meanings of touchy subject in English

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Usage of touchy subject in English
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Unfortunately, Laura had brought up what apparently was a very touchy subject.
Battlestar Galactica
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Complicating matters further is that it is potentially a very touchy subject.
News.com.au
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Executive health is a touchy subject at the best of times.
Reuters
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But the touchy subject is never far, especially during such a tense time.
Reuters
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A potentially touchy subject had come up earlier-whatKatie wanted for her birthday.
You can't stop me
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This is why it's such a touchy subject because he hasn't said anything.
Ebony
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Auntie Rita loves to talk but this, I knew, was a touchy subject.
The distant hours
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Elena glanced over again, wondering whether to avoid or confront the touchy subject.
Mad enough to marry
9
The one touchy subject that had fortunately been avoided until now.
The lake
10
We now come to the touchy subject of police and boards.
The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontie...
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Large pay packages for bank executives remain a touchy subject following the financial crisis.
Reuters
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How to cope with the crisis is becoming an increasingly touchy subject in Israel.
Reuters
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Allegations of prisoner abuse are a touchy subject in Canada.
Reuters
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I decided to broach this touchy subject in my remarks to the publishing executives.
Disintegration: the splintering of black america
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MaNtuli strongly disagrees with her priest over a touchy subject.
The South African
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I forgot that bridges are a touchy subject with you!
Blue Bonnet's Ranch Party
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