promises, like pie-crust, are made to be broken
- promises, like pie-crust, are made to be broken
1681 Heraclitus Ridens 16 Aug. He makes no more of breaking Acts of Parliaments, than if they were like Promises and Pie-crust made to be broken.
1871 TROLLOPE Ralph the Heir II. iv. ‘Promises like that are mere pie-crust,’ said Ralph.
1981 Family Circle Feb. 66 Promises, like pie-crusts, they say, are made to be broken. Not at Sainsbury’s. Every single pie they sell lives up to the promise of its famous name.
2002 Oldie Aug. 26 Unhappily for most of those zillionaire twenty-somethings—and for those who invested in the New Economy they thought they had invented—their promises turned out to be piecrust.
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pie-crust — see promises, like pie crust, are made to be broken … Proverbs new dictionary
pie — see the devil makes his Christmas pies of lawyers’ tongues and clerks’ fingers promises, like pie crust, are made to be broken … Proverbs new dictionary
Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs, Thematic Index — absence absence makes the heart grow fonder he who is absent is always in the wrong the best of friends must part blue are the hills that are far away distance lends enchantment to the view out of sight, out of mind … Proverbs new dictionary
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break — noun see never give a sucker an even break verb see hard words break no bones if it were not for hope, the heart would break it is the last straw that breaks the camel’s back obey orders, if you break owners … Proverbs new dictionary
promise — see promises, like pie crust, are made to be broken … Proverbs new dictionary
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