spaghetti bowl
n.— «Second, it will highlight how the North American Free Trade Agreement is helping turn the world economy into a “spaghetti bowl” of discriminatory regional free trade areas which do not sit easily with the vague APEC vision of “open regionalism.”» —“Taste Test For Apec As Miami Serves Spaghetti” by Michael Stutchbury Australian Financial Review Dec. 9, 1994. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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