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What does hot potato mean?

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Noun
  1. (uncountable) A child's game in which players pass a ball or other item between them, with the object of avoiding being left holding the item when time expires.
  2. (countable, idiomatic) An awkward or delicate problem with which nobody wants to be associated.
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This was a hot potato that everybody wanted to pass on to the next person in the hope that they would not have to hold it for too long.
His parents first began to notice something was wrong when he was six months old after he badly blistered his fingers on a hot potato chip.
That is a hot potato, which everyone, including Parliament, has preferred to avoid.
I could not leave here today without mentioning a few words on market access, the issue that has recently become the real political hot potato.
The issue has become a political hot potato for Bloomberg, who faces a tough battle for re-election next year.
Although Claire seemed comfortable enough to let the subject drop like a hot potato, the more he thought about it, the less well it sat with him.

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