house of cards

He also claimed it "collapses the house of cards that Tameside is her primary home".

Nevertheless, South Africa would have been happy with their position heading into the interval only to be blown away like a house of cards in a hurricane.

You begin to set up this whole logic, even though it’s kind of a house of cards.

Each “Housewives” series is a rickety house of cards, just waiting for a dramatic gust of wind to implode its structure so it can be rebuilt with the queens and jokers in a different place.

After that, the constant repetition of clothes and video-making and too many shows — it’s really not good for a person’s emotional house of cards.