烫手山芋（棘手的问题）

n.棘手的问题

hot potato───烫手山芋（喻指棘手的问题）；（英）烤土豆

a couch potato───一个成天看电视的人

jacket potato───带皮烤的马铃薯

Idaho potato───爱达荷马铃薯

a hot button───热按钮

air potato───黄独

hot potatoes───烫手山芋（喻指棘手的问题）；（英）烤土豆

sweet potato───甘薯；红薯；芋头

white potato───n.马铃薯；土豆

If I were you, I'd drop that client a hot potato.───假如我是你的话, 我就把那个难以应付的顾客马上甩掉.

The Mideast conflict is really a hot potato for all politicians around the world.───中东问题对世界所有的政治家来说都是个烫手的山芋.

He dropped the topic like a hot potato.───他放弃了这个棘手的话题.

However, the dollar is a hot potato, tasteless but wasteful to discard.───但是, 现在的美元是烫手的山芋, 食之无味,弃之可惜.

Warm up with a hot potato.───用一个热土豆来取暖。

Eventually those dollars will come home, they have to, as a function of math. In the meantime, passing the buck like a hot potato does not work.───数学的功能上说，最终这些美元将必须回到美国。同时，将美元像个烫手山芋一样推出去是做不到的。

Steve: It'sure is. If you were broke, she'd drop you like a hot potato.───史蒂夫: 当然啊! 如果你口袋没钱了, 你就会像烫手山芋一样被她甩掉.

When we learned of the conviction, we dropped him like a hot potato.───听说他判了罪, 我们立即和他中断了往来.

Mon operating strategy, a hot potato? Do not do it in the bird cage.───周一操作策略, 烫手的山芋谁来接? 不要去做笼中鸟.

Consequently the brain drain has become a hot potato which needs to solve.───人才流失问题已成为山西邮政亟待解决的重要问题.

meantime, passing the buck like a hot potato does not work.───同时，将美元像个烫手山芋一样推出去是做不到的。