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Card-house   /kɑrd-haʊs/   Listen
Card-house

noun
1.
An unstable construction with playing cards.  Synonyms: cardcastle, cardhouse, house of cards.






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"Card-house" Quotes from Famous Books



... architects have been thought very clever for having done. But suppose he cannot lift the great stone a, or suppose I will not give it to him, but only the two smaller stones at b, b; he will doubtless try to put them up, tilted against each other, as at d. Very awkward this; worse than card-house building. But if he cuts off the corners of the stones, so as to make each of them of the form e, they will stand up ...
— The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) • John Ruskin

... the annihilation of a mystery. He must surely have imagined the mystery, for it all collapsed like a card-house, if the Princess was coming back. The seances had been most remarkable, too; and he would have to get out his ...
— Queen Lucia • E. F. Benson



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