What does a hot potato mean?
Definitions for a hot potato
a hot pota·to
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of a hot potato in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of a hot potato in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
Examples of a hot potato in a Sentence
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban:
The issue (of resettlement) will be a hot potato in the coming period because even though this could be kept in a semi-secret state... someone somewhere - I think in Berlin this week - will announce that 4-500,000 Syrian refugees could be brought straight from Turkey to the EU, this nasty surprise still awaits Europeans.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, The Crazy Ape:
When I received the Nobel Prize, the only big lump sum of money I have ever seen, I had to do something with it. The easiest way to drop this hot potato was to invest it, to buy shares. I knew that World War II was coming and I was afraid that if I had shares which rise in case of war, I would wish for war. So I asked my agent to buy shares which go down in the event of war. This he did. I lost my money and saved my soul.
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