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A running joke used in academic writing. The phrase, purposefully meaningless and ambivalent, is used after a colon to "spice up" a title.
The Collapse of the Ottoman Empire: A Rope of Sand
Organ Transplant Rejection: A Rope of Sand
My Summer Vacation: A Rope of Sand
by Milli C March 7, 2008
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