house of cards

Example Sentences

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She texted a colleague, who replied: “This house of cards is pretty well crashed.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026

Let’s hope that we can knock over that house of cards with peace walks and other forms of calm, resolute resistance.

From Salon • Feb. 13, 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

“Smoke and mirrors, house of cards, silly investors—what do you want me to tell you?” asks Ishbia.

From Barron's • Jan. 16, 2026

I grin at the house of cards idea, getting the irony that they don’t.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman