An unstable construction with playing cards.
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Examples for "card-house "
Examples for "card-house "
1 Only a word was needed to bring his card - house down.
2 The three views here before us may be familiarly exemplified by supposing the sugar to be a card-house .
3 He must surely have imagined the mystery, for it all collapsed like a card-house , if the Princess was coming back.
4 So we packed our food, sacks, blankets, mackintoshes and the card-house as best we could on the remaining five horses.
5 Both 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.
1 But in a real crisis, it collapses like a house of cards .
2 The house of cards is very much on its way to tumbling.
3 The whole thing was a house of cards , and it fell apart.
4 The whole Diaz machine would go down like a house of cards .
5 I sank back, my house of cards was trembling to its foundations.
1 Single facts, like cards for cardhouses , will not stand alone.
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