Usage of "house of cards"

русский

каталонский

Construction set.

Похожие термины

испанский

An unstable construction with playing cards.

A speculative scheme that depends on unstable factors that the planner cannot control.

Синонимы

Examples for "bubble"

Examples for "bubble"

The government had previously said the travel bubble could begin in September. 
 Reuters 

The long bubble lifetime is the result of surfactant-induced surface tension changes. 
 Pubmed 

Economists, however, are not worried about an asset price bubble just yet. 
 Reuters 

Leave to bubble for 30 minutes, whisking or stirring every few minutes. 
 The Irish Times 

But there are increasing concerns about a bubble in the housing market. 
 The Guardian 

Использование термина house of cards на английском

But in a real crisis, it collapses like a house of cards. 
 News.com.au 

The house of cards is very much on its way to tumbling. 
 The South African 

The whole thing was a house of cards, and it fell apart. 
 In for a penny 

The whole Diaz machine would go down like a house of cards. 
 The Night-Born 

I sank back, my house of cards was trembling to its foundations. 
 That Affair Next Door 

However often the house of cards falls, shall I set about rebuilding it? 
 A grief observed 

Kwaito's house of cards comes tumbling down after Elizabeth comes across an enemy. 
 The South African 

I know I've done the world's largest house of cards twice. 
 Wired 

It's also a house of cards, founded entirely upon a fallacy. 
 Economics Without Illusions 

It is a house of cards, ready to topple at a slight breeze. 
 The South African 

Even by Irish standards, this was classic house of cards' stuff. 
 The Irish Times 

Two words from him would have wrecked the house of cards. 
 The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IX (of X) 

Then it all fell to pieces like a house of cards. 
 Fortitude 

Already it had begun to collapse like a house of cards. 
 The Old Man in the Corner 

His empire and vassal states tumbled like a house of cards. 
 A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. 

His hopes and ambitions had fallen like a house of cards. 
 A Dog with a Bad Name 

Translations for house of cards

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испанский

Значения термина house of cards на английском