hot potato

Speech parts

1. hot potato - Noun

2. hot potato - Phrase

Meaning

a difficult situation

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

controversy baked potato

Antonyms

bagatelle sitter nothing snap snack memorabilia
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Hypernyms

situation

Examples

When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato. Patrick Swayze

If a steaming hot potato fell in your hands you would get it off you as soon as you could. Do the same with negative destructive thoughts- just release them as fast as you can. John Assaraf

To catch the ball, face up, look at all of my options and then pass. I was playing hot potato. I didn't want to be the guy to stall the triangle. Karl Malone

he dropped the topic like a hot potato Source: Internet

First-half Kody Stattmann was the Kody Stattmann you’d come to know: afraid of the ball when it gets to him on offense, getting rid of it like he’s playing hot potato. Source: Internet

One week after Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s hand-picked school board narrowly defeated a plan to yank Chicago police officers out of public schools, the political hot potato has landed in a joint City Council committee. Source: Internet

Words in the phrase

hot potato

Close letter words and terms

hot poop hot pop hot pot hot press hot property hot pursuit