Idiom
Hot button.
(USA) A hot button is a topic or issue that people feel very strongly about.
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The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) today published, unchanged, a hot-button paper modeling a possible bioweapons attack.
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".
"Now building next to train stations is the hot button".
It's just one of those hot button issues.
"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.
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