0 a complicated organization or plan that is very weak and can easily be destroyed or easily go wrong
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.
