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humpty dumpty

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humpty dumpty [ˈhʌmptɪ ˈdʌmptɪ]
n Chiefly Brit
1. a short fat person
2. a person or thing that once overthrown or broken cannot be restored or mended
[after the nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty]
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Noun1.humpty dumptyHumpty Dumpty - an egg-shaped character in a nursery rhyme who fell off a wall and could not be put back together again (late 17th century)


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The tragic demise written for the nineteenth century nursery rhyme, Humpty Dumpty, ironically can be rewritten in the twenty-first century as a metaphor of hope for the topsy-turvy lives we lead in our musical Humpty Dumpty world.
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I guess that simple story is true about Humpty Dumpty: ``All the king's men could not put Humpty Dumpty back together again .
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