I dropped a guy getting a hot dog. A few holes later, he was OK. But it was awful.

such a hot potato that it was dropped.

Dropped like a hot potato

Sooner or later we're all someone's dog

Some of the things they're recommending were hot issues in the 1990s, and they were dropped after being pushed by predecessors of mine very strongly and just didn't get anywhere.

This is a marathon. We've still got 54 holes to go.