| 词汇 | house-of-cards |
| 释义 | house of cardsidiom a complicated organization or plan that is very weak and can easily be destroyed or easily go wrong脆弱的组织；极易出问题的计划 Complicated and difficult to do advanced ambitious ambitiously another arduous formidable formidably get blood out of/from a stoneidiom grail gruelling onerously overdemanding painstaking picnic problematic trickily tricky tuff ultra-sensitive unintuitive You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Weakness and vulnerability Examples of house of cardshouse of cards At any stage the hermeneutic houseofcards could be blown away, or could be marvelled at as a thing of beauty and scholarly insight. A linguistic module for integrating the senses, or a houseofcards? During this speech, he constructs a houseofcards; when she leaves, with her fingers crossed for a better way of life, he knocks the house down. Thus, once the information was made public and the right to consent was referred back to the people, the nuclear project would collapse like a houseofcards. It set the whole houseofcards tumbling. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 So it is that this motion of censure collapses like a houseofcards! From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Then the chief investigator himself is targeted and the houseofcards collapses. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English If the weakest link breaks, the inspection process will collapse like a houseofcards. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English If we do not have this knowledge base, once again we will be building a houseofcards. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Had we acted quickly at that time, the revolt might have collapsed like a houseofcards. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Its houseofcards is gradually falling apart. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If a wall is blown in or out all the floors come down like a houseofcards. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is rather like a group of people trying to build a houseofcards. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They have built a houseofcards that will collapse. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The whole thing is a houseofcards and will add to the instability of the country. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of house of cards These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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