Potatoes are quite round vegetables with brown or red skins and white insides. They grow under the ground.
PHRASE
棘手的問題；燙手山芋；意見不一的復(fù)雜問題
You can refer to a difficult subject that people disagree on as a hot potato .
例句
...a political hot potato such as abortion.類似墮胎這樣政治上的燙手山芋
英漢詞典釋義
n.
馬鈴薯, 土豆
My brother likes potatoes very much, but I don't care for them.我弟弟很喜歡吃土豆, 可我不喜歡。
小人物
They are small potatoes.他們是些微不足道的人。
英英詞典釋義
Noun
1. an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland
2. annual native to South America having underground stolons bearing edible starchy tubers; widely cultivated as a garden vegetable; vines are poisonous