Synonyms for house of cards
house of cards

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1. house of cards, bubblenoun

   a speculative scheme that depends on unstable factors that the planner cannot control

   "his proposal was nothing but a house of cards"; "a real estate bubble"

   Synonyms:
   bubble, card-house, cardhouse, cardcastle

2. house of cards, cardhouse, card-house, cardcastlenoun

   an unstable construction with playing cards

   "he built three levels of his cardcastle before it collapsed"

   Synonyms:
   bubble, card-house, cardhouse, cardcastle

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1. • Scheme
   • Structure

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1. Bob Costas:

   The whole thing could collapse like a house of cards if people actually begin connecting the dots.

2. Leandro Cipoloni:

   Now the house of cards is coming down.

3. Marco Rubio:

   This is stuff from 'House of Cards,' it's not real life.

4. Leandro Cipoloni:

   Pelé was a persona non grata with the national team because of Hawilla's scheme. That shows you who was running the CBF's business under Ricardo Teixeira, now the house of cards is coming down.

5. Frances Beatrix Spade:

   House of Cards, is Spade’s niece. In the same 1999 interview with the Boston Globe, Spade, who had five siblings, told the newspaper her father owned a construction company and her mother was a housewife. To say the least, Spade, who recalled times of rummaging through her mother’s jewelry drawer and wearing overalls around the house, never expected to one day become a fashion expert. When I was a kid, I didn't even know Chanel. I would have called it Channel.