1. hot potato - Noun
2. hot potato - Phrase
a difficult situation
Source: WordNetWhen 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