third rail
Example Sentences
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The union has long viewed a salary cap as a third rail.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026
While we’re making the show and while Dan and the writers are putting it together, there’s sort of this invisible third rail.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2025
But it turns out that he might just be touching the real third rail.
From Salon ● May 23, 2025
“It’s director Colin Trevorrow taught me something called the third rail, which is the rail on a subway system that will shock you. He told me, ‘Goofball is your third rail.
From Seattle Times ● May 24, 2024
A third rail ran along the line, providing nine hundred volts of electricity to the trains.
From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai
