a hot potato

a hot potato
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неприятный вопрос (которым приходится заниматься), дело, от которого хочется поскорее избавиться [первонач. амер.; часть выражения drop smb. или smth. like a hot potato; см. drop smb. like a hot brick]

I have served the Department for thirty-five years and have been an Ambassador for ten. I have taken my share of hardship posts, and been tossed my quota of hot potatoes. (M. West, ‘The Ambassador’, ch. I) — Я проработал в Государственном департаменте тридцать пять лет и десять из них был послом. Я получил свою долю назначений в "гиблые места" и никогда не отказывался от неприятных поручений.

The Air Force got off the wrong foot in its NEPA project and finally the AEC, which had held itself aloof from the project, stepped in to evaluate the work. It was a real hot potato and the AEC juggled it only briefly and threw it into a special analytic project organized at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in... (R. E. Lapp, ‘Atoms and People’, ch. XI) — ВВС с самого начала не повезло с проектом "Ядерная энергия для авиации", и в конце концов Комиссия по атомной энергии решила вмешаться в это дело и оценить проделанную работу. Однако этот твердый орешек оказался не по зубам Комиссии, которая поспешила передать его специальной исследовательской группе, созданной при Массачусетском технологическом институте...

The little "police action", which had looked like piece of publicity ten months ago, had now begun to be more than a hot potato. (W. Du Bois, ‘Worlds of Color’, ch. XVI) — Небольшая "полицейская операция", десять месяцев назад выглядевшая неплохой рекламой, начала жечь ему руки.


Большой англо-русский фразеологический словарь. - М.: «Русский язык-Медиа».. 2006.

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