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Professing one thing and doing another inconsistent with that promise.
“[She] was quite above all double-dealing. She had no mental reservation.”—Maria Edgeworth.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.