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How to pronounce house of cards in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms card-house, cardcastle, cardhouse
Type of construction, structure
Type Words
Synonyms bubble
Type of scheme, strategy


his proposal was nothing but a house of cards.

Examples of house of cards

house of cards
Mentally, in big games, the Buckeyes seem to be a house of cards in a windstorm.
From the dispatch.com
Armstrong is no longer the king, and the house of cards, is starting to crumble.
From the economist.com
It seems that with Solargate, the house of cards is well and truly coming down.
From the infowars.com
Wall Street's house of cards collapsed, taking Main Street down in the process.
From the forbes.com
The risk was that, if we changed something at Bravo, it might be a house of cards.
From the businessweek.com
It's all very well to see the house of cards teetering but who knocks it down?
From the guardian.co.uk
So, say the whole house of cards of our economy crashes down, banks fail, etc.
From the evangelicaloutpost.com
When Wall Street's house of cards began collapsing, credit markets evaporated.
From the kentucky.com
But on these sound foundations, Iceland has also built a financial house of cards.
From the economist.com