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Hot button.
(USA) A hot button is a topic or issue that people feel very strongly about.
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Gender issues, particularly those going beyond the hot-button discussion of abortion, are worth exploring, and it's too bad that the Democratic night-of-women opportunity didn't prompt such a focus.
Lisa Thornton-Weiss, a choreographer and the wife of the American Michael Weiss, a two-time Olympian, said the anonymity issue was a "hot button" of discussion on the conference call.
Divestment – the decision to voluntarily reduce one's fossil fuel investments – has been a hot button topic of discussion since 2011, when university students began calling on their institutions to remove fossil fuels from their portfolios.
Alford and Hibbing argue that it is not so much that people are becoming more in tune with their genetics as that the nature of modern American politics, with ideologically based news outlets and open discussion of hot button social issues, now is free to reflect bedrock divisions.
Her calm demeanor has been an asset in intense discussions about hot button issues, and was particularly useful when she got into the isolated country of Myanmar -- a great, heart-stopping assignment that won her major kudos.
The ongoing discussion surrounding race and diversity in Hollywood has not only been a hot button topic in recent years, it has also inspired the making of Chris Rock's forthcoming film, "Top Five".
She hit your hot button.
Too much of a hot button.
He's very careful around that kind of hot button.
But race remains a perennial hot button for the company.
Could it be the next hot button issue?
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