English-Italian translations for hot potato

• patata bollente
  Le abbiamo passato una patata bollente, Commissario. That sounds like a hot potato for you, Commissioner.
  Si tratta di una “patata bollente” che tutti, Parlamento compreso, hanno preferito evitare. That is a hot potato, which everyone, including Parliament, has preferred to avoid.
  Certamente si tratta di una 'patata bollente? per alcuni Stati membri, ma la questione non si può eludere. Yes, this is a 'hot potato' in a number of Member States, but that cannot be helped.
• patata calda

Definition of hot potato

• A child's game in which players pass a ball or other item between them, with the object of avoiding being left holding the item when time expires

Examples

• The politician hastened to distance himself from that political hot potato.

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