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"ref": "1969 January 12, Benjamin Welles, “A Hot Potato for Nixon”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
"text": "The “lame duck” Johnson Administration, in its final fortnight in office, grappled last week with a diplomatic hot potato in the form of the latest Soviet proposal for a “just and lasting” Middle East peace settlement.",
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"ref": "1984 June 14, Carol Lawson, quoting Phyllis Silverman, “Parental Leave: a ‘Hot Potato’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
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"ref": "2021 August 3, Ed Augustin, Daniel Montero, “Why the internet in Cuba has become a US political hot potato”, in The Guardian",
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"word": "燙手山芋"
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"sense": "child's game",
"word": "击鼓传花"
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"word": "kuuma peruna"
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"word": "patate chaude"
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"word": "patata calda"
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"sense": "child's game",
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"word": "карто́шка"
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"sense": "child's game",
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"word": "patata caliente"
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"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "awkward or delicate problem",
"word": "燙手山芋"
},
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"roman": "tàngshǒushānyù",
"sense": "awkward or delicate problem",
"word": "烫手山芋"
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"word": "kuuma peruna"
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"tags": [
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"word": "heißes Eisen"
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"roman": "tapúaẖ adamá lohét",
"sense": "awkward or delicate problem",
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"word": "תַּפּוּחַ אֲדָמָה לוֹהֵט"
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"sense": "awkward or delicate problem",
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