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Examples
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If it takes your in-laws, pastor and the secret Republican club in DC to put humpty-dumpty back together again ....
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Can this wrecking crew put humpty-dumpty back together again?
Live Blog: Presenting the Economic Team - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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And the real kicker is that even if the Democrats succeed in putting humpty-dumpty back together again and the nation starts to recover from the trillions of dollars looted during the Bush years, the Republicans will return to power in 2016 or 2020 and tear everything down once again with deregulation and tax cuts while their crony capitalists make yet another killing on the backs of working families.
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Now, the Iraq Study Group has spent the past seven months trying to figure out how to put that humpty-dumpty back together, and this is what they came up with:
Joshuah Bearman: Mission Impossible: The Iraq Study Group 2008
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Sometimes even Madame Jane's all-knowing crystal ball can't put humpty-dumpty back together again.
Madame Jane Predicts: How to survive the coming economic meltdown.... 2006
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My question is this, who will run Iraq, since your own experts have said the Iraqi opposition is humpty-dumpty.
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Nan lit a cigarette and seated herself on the humpty-dumpty cushion by the fire.
The Moon out of Reach Margaret Pedler
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But the diplomatic humpty-dumpty had had so great a fall that it was impossible to put it together again.
The Story of World War II Donald L. Miller 1945
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But the diplomatic humpty-dumpty had had so great a fall that it was impossible to put it together again.
The Story of World War II Donald L. Miller 1945
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We'll leave that humpty-dumpty husband of yours and his hypocritical good-nature to whistle for his wife and his ship.
The Indulgence of Negu Mah Robert Arthur 1939
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