What does hot potato mean?

hot potato means "a difficult situation".

Is hot potato a common word?

hot potato is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Hot potato — meaning and definition

noun

1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
a difficult situation
“he dropped the topic like a hot potato”
Broadersituation

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What does hot potato mean?: hot potato means "a difficult situation".
Is hot potato a common word?: hot potato is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for hot potato come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.

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