hot potato 的定义
- Informal. a situation or issue that is difficult, unpleasant, or risky to deal with.
- British Informal. a baked potato.
hot potato 近义词
等同于 cause celebre
等同于 cause célèbre
等同于 imperilment
等同于 crisis
等同于 danger
等同于 hazard
更多hot potato例句
- Senior officials in Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett's government see the consulate issue as a political hot potato that could destabilize their unwieldy coalition.
- However, the site has been a political hot potato, with support for it swaying in response to local opposition and state and federal leadership.
- Gay marriage was the hot-button fight on the left and right.
- Everybody is trapped in an elevator together and tempers run a little hot.
- Even the hot Jewish women I mentioned above did something a bit more “intellectual” than pageantry: acting.
- There was deep brown flesh, and bronze flesh, and pallid white flesh, and flesh turned red from the hot sun.
- Many Jewish women have been accepted as conventional, mainstream hot.
- In the drawing-room things went on much as they always do in country drawing-rooms in the hot weather.
- The Potato is planted very sparingly south of Piedmont, and not so commonly there as in Savoy.
- “You appear to feel it so,” rejoined Mr. Pickwick, smiling at the clerk, who was literally red-hot.
- Nearly half the regiment ran to secure their picketed horses, armed themselves in hot haste, and galloped to the gaol.
- News came that the rebels were plundering the British quarters, and the infantry went there in hot haste.