belly button

belly button
 n.— «We’re putting a 10-day time period on any changes we want from the time—the ambassador wants to reallocate money, put it toward a project. The turn-around for our entire bureacracy is 10 days. I’m the belly button in charge, so you’ll have somebody to point to.» —“Testimony as Delivered to the Senate Armed Services Committee on the Transition in Iraq” by Richard Armitage in United States Department of Defense DefenseLINK News June 25, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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