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a hot potato
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a difficult issue that people disagree about and nobody wants to deal with
Often 'a political hot potato'. Don't confuse it with 'a couch potato'.
In context
Raising the retirement age has become a political hot potato.
No minister wants to handle the hot potato of fuel prices before the election.
More idioms about politics
- a double standarda rule applied more strictly to one group than to another
- a grey areaa situation where the rules are unclear, so nobody is sure what is allowed
- a hidden agendaa secret reason or plan behind what someone says or does
- a lame ducka politician or government with little real power, often near the end of a term in office
- a landslide victorya win in an election by a very large number of votes