hot issue
Noun
Meaning
newly issued stock that is in great public demand
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Examples
No politician can sit on a hot issue if you make it hot enough.
A hot issue being debated is whether or not to extend some of the Bush-era tax cuts.
Back when the free trade agreement was a hot issue, the nation's first vice president and a legislative deputy related to the president penned a memo urging hardball tactics to win passage of the treaty in a 2007 national referendum.
In the meantime, parliament had caught on to the fact that this was a hot issue.
It has become a hot issue much talked about in Malaysia.
The gun issue is a hot issue, and I intend to be a participant in that, on the Judiciary and Criminal Law committees.