English
Noun
en-noun|sghot potato|plhot potatoes

1. uncountable a child's game in which players pass a ball or other object between them. The object is to avoid being the one left holding the ball when time expires.
2. context|countable|idiom an awkward problem with which nobody wants to be associated.

#: The politician hastened to distance himself from that political hot potato.

Derived terms
drop something like a hot potato
hot-potato routing

• 2007-03-03 09:49 - Paul G - infl; der

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