sofa government
n.— «“People want to know how you’re going to approach the making of decisions,”” Brown said on BBC’s “Sunday AM’” program on July 1. “This is not, what some people call, sofa government.”» —“Brown, Seeking to Rebuild Trust, Plans U.K. Constitution Change” by Robert Hutton Bloomberg.com July 2, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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