русский
карточный домик каталонский
house of cards 
испанский
castillo de naipes Синонимы
Examples for "card-house"
Examples for "card-house"
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Only a word was needed to bring his card-house down.
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The three views here before us may be familiarly exemplified by supposing the sugar to be a card-house.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Single facts, like cards for cardhouses, will not stand alone.
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But in a real crisis, it collapses like a house of cards.
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The house of cards is very much on its way to tumbling.
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The whole thing was a house of cards, and it fell apart.
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The whole Diaz machine would go down like a house of cards.
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I sank back, my house of cards was trembling to its foundations.
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However often the house of cards falls, shall I set about rebuilding it?
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Kwaito's house of cards comes tumbling down after Elizabeth comes across an enemy.
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I know I've done the world's largest house of cards twice.
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It's also a house of cards, founded entirely upon a fallacy.
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It is a house of cards, ready to topple at a slight breeze.
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Even by Irish standards, this was classic house of cards' stuff.
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Two words from him would have wrecked the house of cards.
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Then it all fell to pieces like a house of cards.
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Already it had begun to collapse like a house of cards.
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His empire and vassal states tumbled like a house of cards.
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His hopes and ambitions had fallen like a house of cards.