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hot potato
Overview of noun hot-potato
The noun hot potato has 1 sense (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (1) hot potato -- (a difficult situation; "he dropped the topic like a hot potato")
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun hot-potato
1 sense of hot potato
Sense 1
hot potato
=> situation
=> difficulty
=> condition, status
=> state
=> attribute
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun hot-potato
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun hot-potato
1 sense of hot potato
Sense 1
hot potato
=> situation
Antonyms of noun hot-potato
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Meronyms of noun hot-potato
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Attributes of noun hot-potato
Derived Forms of noun hot-potato
Domain of noun hot-potato
Domain Terms of noun hot-potato
Familiarity of noun hot-potato
hot potato used as a noun is very rare (polysemy count =1)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun hot-potato
1 sense of hot potato
Sense 1
hot potato
> situation
=> conflict of interest
=> crisis
=> crunch
=> hornet's nest, hornets' nest
=> hot potato
=> how-do-you-do, how-d'ye-do
=> imbroglio, embroilment
=> Mexican standoff
=> nightmare, incubus
=> no-win situation
=> pass, strait, straits
=> purgatory
=> swamp
=> time bomb, ticking bomb
=> tinderbox
=> urgency
=> deadlock, dead end, impasse, stalemate, standstill
=> quicksand
Meronyms of noun hot-potato
1 sense of hot potato
Holonyms of noun hot-potato
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