House of cards
a house of cards (noun) - 1. a game where the players stack playing cards on top of each other, building a house, being careful to not let it fall down, 2. a system built on a shaky foundation that will collapse easily (See Wikipedia)
a fragile house of cards
collapsed like a house of cards
looked ready to collapse like a house of cards
come tumbling down like a house of cards
her resistance collapsed like a house of cards
her resolve crumpled like a house of cards
his hopes collapsed like a house of cards
unable to look at the woman who'd brought his world crashing about him like a fragile house of cards
one memorandum eventually brought down the whole house of cards
a mathematical house of cards, the credit default swap market...
the first storeys of the house of cards came tumbling down and Victoria burst into tears
the way we run things comes to seem ever more absurd, a house of cards built upon endless bureaucracy
a deep awareness of the fragility of British power: one false move and the whole house of cards could come tumbling down
has the solidity of a house of cards
Example sentences:
* At a stormy shareholders' general meeting the CEO's house of cards came tumbling down.
* Ruth's hopes, which she had built so high, collapsed like a house of cards.
* The first storeys of the house of cards came tumbling down and Victoria burst into tears.
* As Marianne walked to the door, she turned away, unable to look at the woman who'd brought her world crashing about her ears like a fragile house of cards.
* The constitution collapsed like a house of cards.
* That one memorandum eventually brought down the whole house of cards.
* In Whitehall there was a deep awareness of the fragility of British power: one false move and the whole house of cards could come tumbling down.
* It looked ready to collapse like a house of cards if Swire Sugden huffed and puffed hard enough.
* The accusations against him collapsed like a house of cards and those pulling the strings have been revealed.
* In this legal case arguments and evidence are delivered in an oblique way, forming a house of cards toppled by anything other than superficial examination.
* In this tour through the modern world the way we run things comes to seem ever more absurd, a house of cards built upon endless bureaucracy, a paper chase that leaves us all working frantically to keep a worse quality of life.
* "Let me do that," he ordered huskily, and her resolve crumpled like a house of cards.
* The whole model of race-linked characteristics ensuring success in sport has the solidity of a house of cards.
* He won't say anything if he doesn't want to, That's life, he will shrug, in response to some question that you have built like a house of cards, but if he wants to, he'll say anything.
* As he drank from the two glasses so he was able to strut wider and leap higher, until with the glasses empty he was spinning and soft-shoe shuffling, and the dancers had stopped dancing and were finger-clicking and hand-clapping and the atmosphere built like a house of cards, thin and precarious but high and beautiful.
* The other walls and the roof folded up gently, as if it was a house of cards with the Ace of Spades flipped away.
* Her resistance collapsed like a house of cards; bowing and mumbling apologies, he led us out of the main palace building, across a deserted cobbled yard to a small tower built in the far wall of the palace.
* Sadly, this makes all her high moral stances and her bonny sights of yesteryear come tumbling down like a house of cards.
* I tell you what what I did watch I enjoyed was erm called something of cards, house of cards, Sunday evening, a Monday evening it was
