rice bowl
n.— «He acknowledged that “in every area” that joint operations become a key discriminator among requirements, “you begin to break some rice bowls…but it’s what needs to be done.”» —“Shalikashvili: Time to break ‘rice bowls’ in search of jointness” Aerospace Daily Aug. 5, 1994. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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