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Hot potato

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.

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noun
  1. 1

    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. 2

    An awkward or delicate problem with which nobody wants to be associated.

    "The politician hastened to distance himself from that political hot potato."

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