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Significados de cardhouse em inglês

espanhol
castillo de naipes

An unstable construction with playing cards.

        castillo de naipes
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        Examples for "card-house"
        Examples for "card-house"
        1
        Only a word was needed to bring his card-house down.
        Maurice Guest
        2
        The three views here before us may be familiarly exemplified by supposing the sugar to be a card-house.
        Discourses: Biological & Geological / Essays
        3
        He must surely have imagined the mystery, for it all collapsed like a card-house, if the Princess was coming back.
        Queen Lucia
        4
        So we packed our food, sacks, blankets, mackintoshes and the card-house as best we could on the remaining five horses.
        The Luck of Thirteen: Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro a...
        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.
        Darkness and Dawn
        1
        But in a real crisis, it collapses like a house of cards.
        News.com.au
        2
        The house of cards is very much on its way to tumbling.
        The South African
        3
        The whole thing was a house of cards, and it fell apart.
        In for a penny
        4
        The whole Diaz machine would go down like a house of cards.
        The Night-Born
        5
        I sank back, my house of cards was trembling to its foundations.
        That Affair Next Door
        Uso de cardhouse em inglês
        1
        Single facts, like cards for cardhouses, will not stand alone.
        The Age of Erasmus / Lectures Delivered in the Universities of O...
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