I suggested many different activities we could do together but all he wanted to do was sit and watch TV.

Example of idiom hot potato. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English. Times Sunday Times 2010 If he is held beyond his term the case will become a political hot potato for the incoming Administration. Where is it used.

The inference is that a hot potato is too hot to handle. The political candidate knew the issue was a hot potato so he deferred to his chief of staff who directed questions to the committee chairperson. Best idiom synonyms for hot potato are hot-potato issue can of worms and burning issue.

For example Gun control is a political hot potato. Derives from the literal sense that a hot potato is difficult to hold. He had not expected this hot potato.

- As the chairman - As the chairman Dictionary. The bombing of Syria is a political hot potato. The topic of Mals new hairpiece was something of a hot potato at the party.

From the Cambridge English Corpus. Examples of how this phrase might be used are. A hot potato could be social political personal etc.

Where did it originate. Coined in the mid-nineteenth century the full phrase has fallen somewhat out of fashion in recent decades leaving us with just the overheated tuber at its heart. Synonyms for Hot potato.