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Значения термина card-house на английском

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castillo de naipes

An unstable construction with playing cards.

castillo de naipes
Использование термина card-house на английском
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Only a word was needed to bring his card-house down.
Maurice Guest
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The three views here before us may be familiarly exemplified by supposing the sugar to be a card-house.
Discourses: Biological & Geological / Essays
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He must surely have imagined the mystery, for it all collapsed like a card-house, if the Princess was coming back.
Queen Lucia
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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...
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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
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Hope built air-castles, and doubt then puffed them over like card-houses.
Stories by Foreign Authors: Scandinavian
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The least provocation, and an amorous explosion will ensue, tumbling down the card-houses of platonic affection.
The House of the Vampire
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You are to imagine her breast thus adrum with remorse and hatred of herself, what time town by town fell before the invader like card-houses.
Chivalry
Translations for card-house
Card-house через время