Meaning of hot-button | Babel Free

Definitions

Noun. [B2]

Examples

“As is usually the casee when the use of stimulant medications like Ritalin makes it into mainstream media, the [Sroufe] piece pushed emotional hot-buttons in a way that would scare the daylights out of uninformed readers and lead them to avoid ever using such medications or allowing their children to, thereby giving up on a class of medications with enormous potential benefits.”

“What will trigger my hot-button?”

“Therapist: As you can see, this particular thought represents a hot-button emotionally for Susan”

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