Word Explanation:Metaphorically speaking, there are benefits and want to get, but there is trouble not to deal with things.

1, hot hand yam means: from the original meaning is when the yam is cooked very hot, if you take it with your hand you will burn your hand.

2, hot potato another meaning: in the work of a thorny problem or difficulty, tube is not, no matter is not. It is very difficult to solve, not to solve and can not. Can't take it, can't put it, nothing to do, like a hot potato, don't take the potato want to take, take the potato bar also hot.

Hot potato is a hilarious, colloquialism

The meat of the cooked yam is relatively fluffy, the reason why the yam is hot, that is, refers to the thorny issue of the hot yam is not only hot but also because of the meat is like mud as sticky will be scalded, so there is this argument.

The word is easy to confuse with the use of hot hand, hot hand of the original meaning of the hand feel hot hot, a metaphor for the power of the big, flaming, so that people do not dare to approach. This is a pejorative term, but now we all use this word to refer to the popularity of the word is very strong.