Examples of house of cards

• At any stage the hermeneutic house of cards 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 house of cards?

• During this speech, he constructs a house of cards; 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 house of cards.

• It set the whole house of cards tumbling.

• So it is that this motion of censure collapses like a house of cards!

• Then the chief investigator himself is targeted and the house of cards collapses.

• If the weakest link breaks, the inspection process will collapse like a house of cards.