Hot potato

Synonyms for hot potato
noun controversial issue

bone of contention
controversy
debate

scandal
moot point
celebrated case

grist for the gossip mill
political football
war of words

Synonyms
noun critical situation

crunch
dilemma
catastrophe
emergency
pressure
mess
impasse
confrontation
situation
trouble
deadlock
change

disaster
climax
strait
height
juncture
pass
perplexity
corner
plight
culmination
climacteric
trauma

crossroad
puzzle
exigency
crux
embarrassment
imbroglio
necessity
entanglement
predicament
extremity
pinch
quandary

trial
contingency
pickle
urgency
stew
dire straits
moment of truth
point of no return
turning point
big trouble
hour of decision

Antonyms

miracle
good luck
happiness
success
calm
breakthrough

advantage
boon
solution
wonder
benefit
blessing

good fortune
peace
agreement
certainty

Synonyms
noun hazard, troublesome situation

peril
risk
probability
exposure
insecurity
jeopardy
uncertainty

emergency
possibility
threat
vulnerability
instability
menace
crisis

pitfall
precariousness
venture
exigency
precipice
endangerment
storm

clouds
dynamite
slipperiness
double trouble
risky business
thin ice

Antonyms

safety
calm
preservation
security

certainty
sureness
unlikelihood
peace

care
carefulness
guard

Synonyms
noun danger

peril
risk
threat

endangerment
jeopardy
imperilment

dynamite
double trouble
risky business

thin ice

Antonyms

safety
protection
safeguard
reality

assurance
certainty
determination
fact

proof
surety

Synonyms
noun celebrated case

uproar
affair
controversy
debate

fuss
rumor
scandal
talk of the town

controversial case
controversial issue
grist for the gossip mill
matter of the moment

political football
topic of the day
war of words

Synonyms
noun danger

crisis
emergency
endangerment
exigency
exposure
hazard
insecurity

instability
jeopardy
menace
peril
pitfall
possibility
precariousness

precipice
probability
risk
storm
threat
uncertainty
venture

vulnerability
clouds
double trouble
dynamite
risky business
slipperiness
thin ice