NOUN
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a speculative scheme that depends on unstable factors that the planner cannot control
his proposal was nothing but a house of cards
a real estate bubble -
an unstable construction with playing cards
he built three levels of his cardcastle before it collapsed
How To Use house of cards In A Sentence
- Faltering asset prices would have at some point stymie requisite Credit growth and the house of cards would have come tumbling down.
- When the boom failed to materialize, eventually the scam got so large that it could no longer be hidden, and the entire house of cards came tumbling down.
- Like a house of cards, the entire pod is fabricated from structural fibrous cement sheet, only held together by exposed galvanised steel braces. Kangaroo Valley House by Alexander Michael
- The enormous national debt amassed in the last eight years makes all this apparent prosperity nothing but a house of cards.
- I'm printing out HOUSE OF CARDS for revisions (blee), and it's a 475 page manuscript in my usual style (Courier font size 12, line height set to exact: 25pt, 1 margins all around on letter-sized paper). Preparing for revisions
- The joker is wild and Obama's house of cards is begining to come tumbling down!!! Poll of polls: Obama losing ground
- The empire collapsed like a house of cards, and the republic was again proclaimed.
- The enormous national debt amassed in the last eight years makes all this apparent prosperity nothing but a house of cards.
- The enormous national debt amassed in the last eight years makes all this apparent prosperity nothing but a house of cards.
- The enormous national debt amassed in the last eight years makes all this apparent prosperity nothing but a house of cards.
