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Значения термина cardcastle на английском

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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
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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