How to pronounce “house of cards”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• A structure made by stacking playing cards in a pyramidal fashion.
• (by extension, often attributive) Any structure with alternating vertical and horizontal layers.
• (figurative, idiomatic) A structure or argument built on a shaky foundation.

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Similar Sounds

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