thorny subject
collocation in Englishmeaningsofthornyandsubject
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thorny
adjective
uk/ˈθɔː.ni/us/ˈθɔːr.ni/
A thorny problem or subject is difficult to ...
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subject
noun[C]
uk/ˈsʌb.dʒekt/us/ˈsʌb.dʒekt/
the thing that is being discussed, considered, ...
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The reader will learn all he could want to know about all previous and current estimates on thisthornysubject.
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I know that this is a verythornysubject.
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With regard to education, that is a verythornysubject.
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I referred to thisthornysubjectat an earlier stage.
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Have not all the great philosophical minds exhausted themselves on thisthornysubject?
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This is obviously athornysubjectfor any organisation representing a body of people in the public service, such as the police.
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That is the way to approach thisthornysubject.
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I genuinely hope that these practical matters, which are athornysubjectfor consumers, are attended to before the euro comes into proper circulation.
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Tradable emission rights turned out to be athornysubject.
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I should now like to say a word on thethornysubjectof profits and capital.
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If they succeeded in doing that, it would very much simplify the task of anybody who is dealing with thisthornysubjectin the future.
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It is the third agonising day that we have had on thisthornysubject.
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It deals with thethornysubjectof litigation.
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So also does thethornysubjectof equalisation grants.
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You introduce a verythornysubject, and you provide no authority for determining it.
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This is a most difficult andthornysubject.
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There is a problem about the cohabitation rule—athornysubjectin our social security legislation.
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Thethornysubjectof heritable tenancies has been mentioned.
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Such a difficult andthornysubjectshould be debated thoroughly.
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