drop like a hot potato
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]See hot potato.
Verb
[edit]drop like a hot potato (third-person singular simple present drops like a hot potato, present participle dropping like a hot potato, simple past and past participle dropped like a hot potato)
- (simile, transitive, informal) To get rid of or stop doing as quickly as possible.
Further reading
[edit]- “drop sb sth like a hot potato”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
- “drop something or someone like a hot potato”, in Collins English Dictionary.