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

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

Alone again, he tried to focus on his job—always wondering when his house of cards would come crashing down.

From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin