option three

option three
 n.— «Since leaving Oxford, Hamilton-Paterson had continued to write poetry, and in 1974 he published Option Three (former White House jargon for “compromise”).» —“Rare bird of the islands” by Ian Thomson Guardian (U.K.) June 5, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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