house of cards

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun house of cards has 2 senses

house of cards(n = noun.cognition) bubble - 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"

is a kind of scheme, strategy

house of cards(n = noun.artifact) card-house, cardcastle, cardhouse - an unstable construction with playing cards; "he built three levels of his cardcastle before it collapsed"

is a kind of construction, structure

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THESAURUS

house of cards

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, hair, hazard, ice, imperilment, jeopardy, matchwood, menace, milk and water, old paper, parchment, pass, peril, piecrust, pinch, plight, predicament, quicksand, reed, risk, rocks ahead, rope of sand, sand castle, storm clouds, strait, thin ice, thread, threat, water

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house of cards

Weakness

N weakness, debility, atony, relaxation, languor, enervation, impotence, infirmity, effeminacy, feminality, fragility, flaccidity, inactivity, anaemia, bloodlessness, deficiency of blood, poverty of blood, declension of strength, loss of strength, failure of strength, delicacy, invalidation, decrepitude, asthenia, adynamy, cachexy, cachexia, sprain, strain, reed, thread, rope of sand, house of cards, softling, weakling, infant, youth, weak, feeble, debile, impotent, relaxed, unnerved sapless, strengthless, powerless, weakly, unstrung, flaccid, adynamic, asthenic, nervous, soft, effeminate, feminate, womanly, frail, fragile, shattery, flimsy, unsubstantial, insubstantial, gimcrack, gingerbread, rickety, creaky, creaking, cranky, craichy, drooping, tottering, broken, lame, withered, shattered, shaken, crazy, shaky, palsied, decrepit, languid, poor, infirm, faint, faintish, sickly, dull, slack, evanid, spent, short-winded, effete, weather-beaten, decayed, rotten, worn, seedy, languishing, wasted, washy, laid low, pulled down, the worse for wear, unstrengthened, unsupported, unaided, unassisted, aidless, defenseless, cantilevered (support), on its last legs, weak as a child, weak as a baby, weak as a chicken, weak as a cat, weak as a rat, weak as water, weak as water gruel, weak as gingerbread, weak as milk and water, colorless, non sum qualis eram.

Brittleness

N brittleness, fragility, friability, frangibility, fissibility, house of cards, house of glass, brittle, brash, breakable, weak, frangible, fragile, frail, gimcrack, shivery, fissile, splitting, lacerable, splintery, crisp, crimp, short, brittle as glass.

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