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What does hot potato mean?

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Noun
  1. (uncountable) A child's game in which players pass a ball or other item between them, with the object of avoiding being left holding the item when time expires.
  2. (countable, idiomatic) An awkward or delicate problem with which nobody wants to be associated.
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The issue has become a political hot potato for Bloomberg, who faces a tough battle for re-election next year.
This was a hot potato that everybody wanted to pass on to the next person in the hope that they would not have to hold it for too long.
It was a time when many of his old so-called friends had dropped him like a hot potato.
According to Michael Steiner, UN representative for Kosovo, this city is like a hot potato which the Serbian leaders pass quickly on.
His parents first began to notice something was wrong when he was six months old after he badly blistered his fingers on a hot potato chip.
So much so that the Liberal government no longer knows what to do with this hot potato.

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