fortune cookie
noun
a thin folded wafer containing a prediction or maxim printed on a slip of paper: often served as a dessert in Chinese restaurants.
Origin of fortune cookie
1First recorded in 1960–65
Words Nearby fortune cookie
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How to use fortune cookie in a sentence
To which I can only add, pass the fortune cookies and party on.
At Lucky Danger, two talented chefs just want to have fun with their American Chinese food | Tom Sietsema | March 19, 2021 | Washington PostLee, author of The fortune cookie Chronicles and a producer on the film.
‘The Search for General Tso’: The Origins of America’s Favorite Chinese Dish, General Tso’s Chicken | Marlow Stern | April 19, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTOverall, the lessons Rumsfeld offers are pretty good ones, albeit often fortune-cookie philosophy.
‘Rumsfeld’s Rules’ Review: Good Rules, Shame He Didn’t Follow Them | Dean Obeidallah | May 19, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTI 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.
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