hot potato
Noun
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Noun
hot potato
- (uncountable) 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.
- (countable, idiomatic) An awkward or delicate problem with which nobody wants to be associated.
- The politician hastened to distance himself from that political hot potato.
- (game) pass the parcel
- French: patate chaude
- Italian: patata calda
- Spanish: patata caliente
- French: patate chaude
- German: heißes Eisen
- Italian: patata bollente
- Spanish: patata caliente
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