Hot Potato Meaning & Sentence Examples

Hot Potato Definition, Sentence Examples

HOT POTATO MEANING – Find out what hot potato really means. Example sentences of this idiomatic expression can also be found here.

The phrase “drop like a hot potato” means to abruptly abandon something or someone, and it first appeared in the middle of the nineteenth century. It makes reference to the fact that cooked potatoes have a high water content, which allows them to retain a lot of heat.

Meaning:

any topic that is regularly contested and is being discussed by many people
something that is challenging or awful to deal with
a difficult-to-handle issue or circumstance that generates a lot of contention
a topic or query about which various people have differing viewpoints and strongly feel
a contentious issue that is uncomfortable to handle
a sensitive or problematic issue that many people don’t want to discuss

Here are examples of sentences that use hot potato:

Our boss dropped the topic like a hot potato.
Foreign aid is now a huge political hot potato.
I never discuss anyone’s religion, it can be a hot potato.
Benedict dropped the plan like a hot potato when he realized how much it would cost him.

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