belly button
n.— «“Belly Button” is the US military code name for the one who makes the decisions. Hence, the phrases, “He can’t find his belly button’”We don’t know the belly button’”There is no belly button’”Where is my belly button?” etc.» —“Profile: One artist’s effort to define himself and his work” by Alex Caldiero Hearing Voices Apr. 27, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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