English-Russian translations for hot potato

• карто́шка

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.

Related words

• hot pot
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