little red dot
n.— «There are things which happened in a country like this where they investigate for months and are still not quite sure what took place. That’s the reality. So that’s the way Southeast Asia is and we are in Southeast Asia and it’s our job to be the little red dot which everybody knows is something special.» —“DPM Lee says proper reporting of bird flu cases difficult in big countries” in Jakarta, Indonesia Channel NewsAsia Jan. 28, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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