An unstable construction with playing cards.
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Examples for "card-house"
Examples for "card-house"
1Only a word was needed to bring his card-house down.
2The three views here before us may be familiarly exemplified by supposing the sugar to be a card-house.
3He must surely have imagined the mystery, for it all collapsed like a card-house, if the Princess was coming back.
4So we packed our food, sacks, blankets, mackintoshes and the card-house as best we could on the remaining five horses.
5Both of them expected nothing but that the entire structure would collapse like a card-house and shatter down in ruins that would be their death.
1Single facts, like cards for cardhouses, will not stand alone.
A speculative scheme that depends on unstable factors that the planner cannot control.
1But in a real crisis, it collapses like a house of cards.
2The house of cards is very much on its way to tumbling.
3The whole thing was a house of cards, and it fell apart.
4The whole Diaz machine would go down like a house of cards.
5I sank back, my house of cards was trembling to its foundations.
6However often the house of cards falls, shall I set about rebuilding it?
7Kwaito's house of cards comes tumbling down after Elizabeth comes across an enemy.
8I know I've done the world's largest house of cards twice.
9It's also a house of cards, founded entirely upon a fallacy.
10It is a house of cards, ready to topple at a slight breeze.
11Even by Irish standards, this was classic house of cards' stuff.
12Two words from him would have wrecked the house of cards.
13Then it all fell to pieces like a house of cards.
14Already it had begun to collapse like a house of cards.
15His empire and vassal states tumbled like a house of cards.
16His hopes and ambitions had fallen like a house of cards.
Translations for house of cards