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
Both share one house of cards that works on paper.
From Barron's • Apr. 23, 2026
Yasmin and Henry are perched at the very top of a house of cards, and there’s a strong wind coming just over the horizon.
From Salon • Mar. 1, 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
Buildings fell like wounded dinosaurs; others collapsed like a house of cards.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
