Possible Clues:

• Thin paint
• Tread softly on this breakfast dish with anguish
• What the polite curate wanted to say, being yellowish and pale?
• Laid to get hot and easily broken
• Encourage hard case to paint
• Sort of paint, say, nightmare to put on outside of garages
• Inside is where bird begins
• Delicate china destined to be cracked?
• Hatch cover?
• China cook threw in the dustbin