In the depths of winter, I drift down from the sky as a delicate, icy crystal, but call an unreliable person by my name and you mean they never show up. What am I?
A snowflake (or flake)
The answer draws on a modern slang double meaning for the word 'flake.' In nature, a snowflake is an intricate ice crystal falling during winter snowstorms. In social slang, a 'flake' is someone who makes commitments but frequently cancels plans or fails to appear.
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