internal nutrition

internal nutrition
 n.β€” Β«What was going on at the internment camp wasn’t force feeding, he insisted. It was “internal nutrition.”Β» β€”β€œOff-colour stoats one for the Greens” by Alan Cochrane Scotsman (Glasgow, Scotland) Jan. 1, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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