Meaning of Humpty Dumpty | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A nursery rhyme character who falls from a wall and breaks irreparably in the manner of an egg; (figurative) by extension, anything similarly fragile, irreparably damaged, or insecure, precariously at risk of such irreparable damage.
2. A Romani drink of ale boiled with brandy.
   obsolete, uncountable

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Examples

“... she sits perched high up, astride a man's saddle, looking in her balloon garments, and doubtless feeling, more insecure than Humpty Dumpty on the wall.”

“For many people, traditional Christian theology is a Humpty-Dumpty: it has tumbled from its perch and can't be put⟳ together again.”

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