Sometimes they have been piecrusts made of flaky pastry, and very thin flaky pastry at that.
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Are we to depend upon thepiecrustpromises of the dictator?
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They were not made like piecrusts to be broken.
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I know that it is said that political promises are like piecrusts, in that they break, but this appears to be a promise broken before the pie is even baked.
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