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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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Rosi's masterstroke was to not approach the hot-button material – of sinking boats, clamouring migrants, bellowing officials – head on, but instead watch it at one remove, through the eyes of the locals on Lampedusa, the Sicilian island that has become a major gateway for the exodus.
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?
But Al was always the hot button, and he's always going to be the hot button".
"This is the hottest hot button there is for buyers," he said.
Hot button means an emotional, divisive controversy and does not mean a hot topic.
It's just one of those hot button issues.
"Now building next to train stations is the hot button".
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