Idiom
Hot button.
(USA) A hot button is a topic or issue that people feel very strongly about.
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When I first moved to New York City, rape was my hot button off-limits topic within comedy.
But race remains a perennial hot button for the company.
No question, this is a hot button with the voters.
GMOs have become a hot button for debate and misinformation.
Oy...that is a hot "button" for me.
It's such a hot button for some people.
There was always the possibility that at any given moment a hot button could get fired up and off we'd go, into the boxing ring letting go of as many combinations as we could.
Over at the Hot Button, Dave Poland has set up a support group for those who have been swept off their feet by "Brokeback Mountain".
The Simpson case punched too many social, racial, and emotional hot buttons for it to ever slip to far off the public radar scope.
She hit your hot button.
Too much of a hot button.
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