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
If this was a crime of passion, it was meticulously laid out, but eventually it was exposed as a cold and calculating house of cards that came crashing down.
From BBC ● Mar. 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
It was like he had just finished building a house of cards.
From "As Brave As You" by Jason Reynolds
