a hot potato

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• Hot Potato (game) — Hot potato is a game that involves players quickly gathering in a circle and tossing a small object such as a beanbag or tennis ball to each other while music plays. The player who has the hot potato last when the music stops is out. Play… …   Wikipedia

• Hot Potato — may refer to:*Hot Potato (game), a children s game that involves tossing a small object * Hot Potato (game show), an American television show from 1984 * Hot Potato (film), a film starring martial artist Jim Kelly * Hot Potato (song), a song by… …   Wikipedia

• hot potato — A problem or issue that is very controversial and no one wants to deal with is a hot potato …   The small dictionary of idiomes

• hot potato — hot po tato n a subject or problem that no one wants to deal with, because it is difficult and any decision might make people angry ▪ The issue has become a political hot potato …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• hot potato — hot potatoes N COUNT If you describe a problem or issue as a hot potato, you mean that it is very difficult and nobody wants to deal with it. [INFORMAL] …   English dictionary

• hot potato — ► NOUN informal ▪ a controversial and awkward issue …   English terms dictionary

• hot potato — ☆ hot potato n. Informal a troubling or seemingly insoluble problem, issue, etc. that no one wants to handle …   English World dictionary

• Hot Potato (game show) — Infobox Television show name = Hot Potato caption = show name 2 = Celebrity Hot Potato genre = Game show creator = writer = Scott Wyant director = Richard S. Kline starring = Bill Cullen narrated = Charlie O Donnell theme music composer = Hal… …   Wikipedia

• Hot-potato and cold-potato routing — This article is about the use of these terms in the context of routing policy. For the packet switching technique sometimes also called hot potato routing , see deflection routing. In commercial network routing between autonomous systems which… …   Wikipedia

• Hot Potato (song) — Infobox Single | Name = Hot Potato Artist = La Toya Jackson from Album = Heart Don t Lie Released = 1984 Format = 7 , 12 single Recorded = 1984 Genre = Pop/R B/Soul/Dance Length = 4:40 (Album Version), 3:42 (Single Version) Label = Epic Producer …   Wikipedia

• hot potato — noun a difficult situation (Freq. 1) he dropped the topic like a hot potato • Hypernyms: ↑situation * * * noun, pl ⋯ toes [count] informal : an issue or question about which people have different opinions and feel very strongly He tried to avoid… …   Useful english dictionary