hot potato

They all agreed that they would get rid of this hot potato, adjourn quickly and go home for the holidays.

In states with abortion bans, such patients are sometimes bounced between hospitals like “hot potatoes,” with health care providers reluctant to participate in treatment that could attract a prosecutor, doctors told ProPublica.

Gaza has been a hot potato on the campaign trail, and this is a conflict that the winning party will inherit.

Climate change has been viewed almost universally as a burden, a hot potato to be passed from country to country at annual climate change conferences.

Studios, streamers and indie distributors were understandably wary of picking up such a political hot potato.