Synonyms for hot potato
| Grammar : Noun |
Top 10 synonyms for hot potato Other synonyms for the word hot potato
- affair
- big trouble
- bone of contention
- celebrated case
- climacteric
- climax
- clouds
- contingency
- controversial case
- controversial issue
- controversy
- corner
- crisis
- crossroad
- crux
- culmination
- debate
- dire straits
- double trouble
- dynamite
- embarrassment
- emergency
- endangerment
- entanglement
- exigency
- exposure
- extremity
- fuss
- grist for the gossip mill
- hazard
- height
- hour of decision
- imbroglio
- imperilment
- insecurity
- instability
- jeopardy
- juncture
- matter of the moment
- menace
- moment of truth
- moot point
- necessity
- pass
- peril
- perplexity
- pickle
- pinch
- pitfall
- plight
- point of no return
- political football
- possibility
- precariousness
- precipice
- predicament
- pressure
- probability
- puzzle
- quandary
- risk
- risky business
- rumor
- scandal
- situation
- slipperiness
- stew
- storm
- strait
- talk of the town
- thin ice
- threat
- topic of the day
- trauma
- trial
- trouble
- turning point
- uncertainty
- uproar
- urgency
- venture
- vulnerability
- war of words
Définition of hot potato
- As in cause celebre : noun celebrated case
- As in cause célèbre : noun controversial issue
- As in imperilment : noun danger
- As in crisis : noun critical situation
- As in danger : noun hazard, troublesome situation
- As in hazard : noun danger
- It wa'n't the hot potato dialect Piddie uses; but it leaned that way.
- Extract from : « Torchy » by Sewell Ford
- "Tom, if I had such a sister as you've got, I'd tie a hot potato in her mouth," he exclaimed.
- Extract from : « When Life Was Young » by C. A. Stephens
- So they dropped me like a hot potato; never pestered me again.
- Extract from : « A Simpleton » by Charles Reade
- She was a magnificent woman, Mr. Moody, and she dropped me like a hot potato.
- Extract from : « My Lady's Money » by Wilkie Collins
- Roque dropped his doctor character like a hot potato when he learned the import of the flashes.
- Extract from : « Our Young Aeroplane Scouts in Germany » by Horace Porter
- Place the hot potato mixture in a pastry bag and press rosettes on a flat buttered tin pan three inches apart.
- Extract from : « A Thousand Ways to Please a Husband » by Louise Bennett Weaver
- She had expected to find a bowl of hot potato soup and a plate of sausage and garlic.
- Extract from : « Robert Tournay » by William Sage
- He then threw his arms around his wife, gave her another hug, and then dropped her like a hot potato.
- Extract from : « The Lost Trail » by Edward S. Ellis
- Roy swung sharply to meet it, dropped his bat like a hot potato and streaked for first.
- Extract from : « The Crimson Sweater » by Ralph Henry Barbour
- Pluxton Cuddle called for order, but even as he spoke a hot potato went sailing through the air and hit him in the shirt front.
- Extract from : « The Putnam Hall Rebellion » by Arthur M. Winfield
Antonyms for hot potato
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