house of cards
Example Sentences
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Both share one house of cards that works on paper.
From Barron's • Apr. 23, 2026
Yasmin knows Harper’s the one who sank her and Henry into this mess — the person set to blow on Tender’s house of cards.
From Salon • Mar. 1, 2026
Every time OpenAI wants to spend money, Windsor said, it needs to raise money — “and it only takes one investment round to go badly for the whole house of cards to fall.”
From MarketWatch • Feb. 5, 2026
The New Brunswick cluster was, one of the paper's authors told the BBC, a "house of cards".
From BBC • Jan. 10, 2026
On one of the desks, someone has stacked brochures for subdivisions into a singlestory house of cards.
From "Paper Towns" by John Green
