house of cards
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1 house of cards
A speculative scheme that depends on unstable factors that the planner cannot control:
— His proposal was nothing but a house of cards.
synoniem: bubble.
Roget 328: brittleness etc. adj.; fragility, friability, frangibility, fissibility†; house of cards, house of glass.
Roget 160: weakness etc. adj.; debility, atony†, relaxation, languor, enervation; impotence etc. 158; infirmity; effeminacy, feminality†; ... meer laten zien
2 house of cards
An unstable construction with playing cards.
synoniemen: card-house, cardcastle, cardhouse.
Nederlands: kaartenhuis
Pools: domek z kart
Moby betekeniswoordenboek: breakers ahead, bubble, cambric tea, cardhouse, cause for alarm, china, cobweb, crisis, danger, dangerous ground, dishwater, eggshell, emergency, endangerment, gaping chasm, gathering clouds, glass, glass house, gossamer, gruel ... meer laten zien.
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