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drop (someone or something) like a hot potato Idiom

a hot potato

a situation likely to cause trouble to the person handling it The issue of the non-union workers is a real hot potato that we must deal with.

couch potato

someone who spends too much time watching TV.

drop him like a hot potato

leave him, not associate with him If she finds out you're not rich, she'll drop you like a hot potato.

hot potato

a question or argument that is controversial and difficult to settle The issue of building the nuclear power plant is a real hot potato for the local town council.

like a hot potato

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potato sack

loose fitting jacket or clothing Potato sack looks good on Ken. Baggy clothes suit him.

small potatoes

unimportant things, insignificant matters Don't worry about a few broken dishes. They're small potatoes.

meat-and-potatoes

Idiom(s): meat-and-potatoes

Theme: BASIC

basic, sturdy, and hearty. (Often refers to a robust person, usually a man, with simple tastes in food and other things. Fixed order.)
• Fred was your meat-and-potatoes kind of guy. No creamy sauces for him.
• There is no point in trying to cook up something special for the Wilsons. They are strictly meat-and-potatoes.

Meat and potatoes

The meat and potatoes is the most important part of something. A meat and potatoes person is someone who prefers plain things to fancy ones.

a couch-potato

someone who never goes out or exercises: "He watches TV all day - what a couch-potato!"

drop (someone or something) like a hot potato

To carelessness addition or article aback and completely, sometimes to abstain abeyant problems. I haven't apparent Cynthia in weeks because she alone me like a hot potato already she started blind out with the air-conditioned kids. We alone our advance affairs like a hot potato afterwards award out how abundant the job would cost.Learn more: drop, hot, like, potato

drop someone or something like a hot potato

Fig. to abstract oneself with addition or article instantly. When we abstruse of the conviction, we alone him like a hot potato. I alone the abstraction like a hot potato back the big bang-up said he didn't like it.Learn more: drop, hot, like, potato

drop article like a hot potato

drop article like a hot brick

If you drop article or addition like a hot potato or drop them like a hot brick, you get rid of them as bound as accessible because they are difficult to accord with, or because you do not appetite them any more. He was acclaimed in the media one minute and alone like a hot potato the next. He afraid and alone his lover like a hot brick.Learn more: drop, hot, like, potato, something

drop addition or article like a hot potato

bound carelessness addition or something. informal Drop actuality is acclimated literally, but additionally in the allegorical faculty of ‘end a amusing associate with someone’. A hot potato can be acclimated apart as a allegory for a arguable or awkward affair or botheration that no one wants to accord with.Learn more: drop, hot, like, potato, someone, something

drop someone/something like a hot potato

tv. to abstract oneself with addition or article instantly. Back we abstruse of the conviction, we alone him like a hot potato. Learn more: drop, hot, like, potato, someone, something

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