Sentence examples for hot button phrase from inspiring English sources

Idiom

Hot button.

(USA) A hot button is a topic or issue that people feel very strongly about.

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I am left with the thought that now is a delicate time in history, maybe even the tipping point that was the hot button phrase that described the situation when I first arrived in 2007.

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The term "social promotion" has become a hot-button phrase, eliciting heated vocal responses on both sides.

Reading Dr. Donald M. Berwick's trenchant observation that the true death panels are politicians who would undo the Affordable Care Act makes me wish that President Obama would rechristen the meaning of another hot-button phrase, "pro life," by turning it into a rallying cry to preserve the universal insurance mandate against threats of repeal.

The subjects of the segment described scrubbing documents of hot-button phrases, hiding information in arcane filing systems, or referring items for legal review as a way to chew up time.

Even the phrasing of hot button issues -- "Mommy Wars" and "Slutgate" -- are coded conversations that define women, their health, their choices and their incomes primarily in terms of their relationships to men.

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?

"Now building next to train stations is the hot button".

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