Idiom
house of cards
Meaning
A structure or argument built on a shaky foundation.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“His plan was a house of cards and soon collapsed.”
“The company's finances were a house of cards, and when one investor pulled out, everything fell apart.”
“What had seemed like a brilliant political alliance turned out to be a house of cards, held together by nothing more than mutual fear and empty promises.”
Examples
simple
“His plan was a house of cards and soon collapsed.”
contextual
“The company's finances were a house of cards, and when one investor pulled out, everything fell apart.”
complex
“What had seemed like a brilliant political alliance turned out to be a house of cards, held together by nothing more than mutual fear and empty promises.”
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