hot potato

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishhot potatoˌhot poˈtato noun [countable] a subject or problem that no one wants to deal with, because it is difficult and any decision might make people angry The issue has become a political hot potato.Examples from the Corpushot potato• That's when you see the Colonel and his council playing pass-the-parcel with a hot potato.• It had become a political hot potato, and time ran out as backers bickered over what tests to run.• Euthanasia for terminally ill patients is a political hot potato.political hot potato• It had become a political hot potato, and time ran out as backers bickered over what tests to run.

单词	hot potato
释义	hot potato From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishhot potatoˌhot poˈtato noun [countable] a subject or problem that no one wants to deal with, because it is difficult and any decision might make people angry The issue has become a political hot potato.Examples from the Corpushot potato• That's when you see the Colonel and his council playing pass-the-parcel with a hot potato.• It had become a political hot potato, and time ran out as backers bickered over what tests to run.• Euthanasia for terminally ill patients is a political hot potato.political hot potato• It had become a political hot potato, and time ran out as backers bickered over what tests to run.
随便看	there’s no (such thing as a) free lunch there’s no comparison there’s no danger of something there’s no denying (that/something) there’s no doing something there’s no escaping (the fact) there’s no free lunch there’s no harm in doing something/it does no harm to do something there’s no holding somebody (back) there’s no knowing there’s no law against something there’s no need (for somebody) to do something there’s no smoke without fire there’s no such person/thing etc as somebody/something there’s no such thing as a free lunch there’s no telling what/how etc there’s no time like the present there’s no time to lose there’s not enough room to swing a cat there’s nothing for it but to do something there’s nothing in/to something there’s nothing like there’s nothing like something there’s nothing to stop somebody (from) doing something there’s one born every minute