house of cards

Example Sentences

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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

In other words, it’s a house of cards.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 13, 2025

Below was thirty-seven hundred feet of air, and I was balanced on a house of cards.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer