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only meatball in the rice

only meatball in the rice
 n.— «I didn’t want her to be the only meatball in the rice, but I didn’t want her to go to an all-black school and get up with some of this so-called ghetto stuff.» —“Felon makes new life as a dad” by Jennifer Jacobs Des Moines Register (Iowa) Sept. 2, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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