self-licking ice-cream cone

See also: self-licking ice cream cone

English

Noun

self-licking ice-cream cone (plural self-licking ice-cream cones)

1. Alternative form of self-licking ice cream cone.
   • 2014, Ron Capps, Seriously Not All Right: Five Wars in Ten Years, Tucson, Ariz.: Schaffner Press, →ISBN, page 121:

     They live in fortresses because they have been at war for centuries, and they’ve been at war for centuries because they live in fortresses. It’s a self-licking ice-cream cone.

   • 2017, Alastair Luft, The Battle Within, Inkshares, →ISBN, page 8:

     In Hugh’s experience, Williams seemed to either simply repeat work that had already been done elsewhere in the chain of command or add redundant procedural steps to interject himself, almost like a self-licking ice-cream cone.

   • 2020, John Bolton, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN:

     The G7 meetings and similar international gatherings had a rhyme and reason at one point in history, and at times do good work, but in many respects, they have simply become self-licking ice-cream cones. They’re there because they’re there.

See also

• self-licking ice-cream cone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia