fortune cookie

a thin folded wafer containing a prediction or maxim printed on a slip of paper: often served as a dessert in Chinese restaurants.

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First recorded in 1960–65

Lee, author of The Fortune Cookie Chronicles and a producer on the film.

Overall, the lessons Rumsfeld offers are pretty good ones, albeit often fortune-cookie philosophy.

I keep an auspicious fortune cookie message in my wallet: "All your sorrows will vanish."

When it's time to leave, Gray is presented with a fortune cookie.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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