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self-licking ice cream cone

self-licking ice cream cone
 n.— «SDI has become “a self-licking ice cream cone. It serves no purpose except to consume itself.”» —“Critics Call Star Wars A Contractors’ Feast” by Tim Weiner Philadelphia Inquirer (Pennsylvania) Mar. 23, 1992. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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