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It’s The One Thing

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Well you know just what you do to me

The way you move soft and slippery

Cut the night just like a razor

Rarely talk and that's the danger

It's the one thing

You are my thing
You know your voice is a love song

It's a catcall from the past

There's no ice in your lover's walk

You don't look twice 'cause you move so fast

You've got a dozen men behind you

You've got dead flowers on the floor

You're too pretty in the daylight

It keeps them coming back for more

It’s The One Thing
by Death Menace February 3, 2023
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it's gon' be one

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If he don't pay back that $20! It's gon' be one!
by Dannie June 6, 2003
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one blade, it's tight

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I need my 'fro to look a little different tonight. I think I'll give myself one blade, it's tight.
by gammygamms October 11, 2010
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A pervasive Brazilian rhetorical dismissal used to defang any example that threatens a cherished narrative, especially by those in power. When presented with a damning instance of corruption, police brutality, or systemic failure, this phrase magically transforms it from evidence of a pattern into a meaningless statistical anomaly. It's the ultimate tool for normalization, draining collective outrage by insisting each horrific event is a unique, freak accident with no connection to any other—ensuring the structure that produced it never has to be examined.
Example: A video surfaces showing a military police officer executing an unarmed Black teenager in a favela. The government spokesperson appears on TV: "This is a tragedy, but it's just another one-off case. We cannot generalize the honorable work of our police force based on one bad actor." The phrase turns a symptom of endemic violence into a conversational dead end.
by Abzugal Nammugal Enkigal February 4, 2026
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