hot-button

Definitions

Examples

• Gay marriage was the hot-button fight on the left and right.

• Clad in a blue, striped button-down, a silver watch adorning his left wrist, Huckabee beams on the cover.

• Everybody is trapped in an elevator together and tempers run a little hot.

• Even the hot Jewish women I mentioned above did something a bit more “intellectual” than pageantry: acting.

• There was deep brown flesh, and bronze flesh, and pallid white flesh, and flesh turned red from the hot sun.

• In the drawing-room things went on much as they always do in country drawing-rooms in the hot weather.

• “You appear to feel it so,” rejoined Mr. Pickwick, smiling at the clerk, who was literally red-hot.

• "I verily believe they're gone to look at my button," cried Davy, beginning to laugh, in spite of his fears.

• Nearly half the regiment ran to secure their picketed horses, armed themselves in hot haste, and galloped to the gaol.

• News came that the rebels were plundering the British quarters, and the infantry went there in hot haste.