Meanings
plural self-licking lollipops
- figurativelySomething that apparently exists only to sustain itself.
And if there isn't an incident it doesn't mean that you can relax your guard, it means that you might need more. The more you have, the more you want. Security is a self-licking lollipop.
2023, Mike Croll, The Rise of Security and Why We Always Want More, page 491 more example
It will unquestionably be a marathon with no finishing line, a self-licking lollipop, since the more one gets things right in the city, the more people will come, and the bigger the challenge.
2017, Greg Mills, Olusegun Obasanjo, Jeffrey Ira Herbst, Making Africa Work: A Handbook for Economic Success, page 85Synonyms: self-licking ice cream cone
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSomething that apparently exists only to sustain itself.
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