Definition of House of cards

1. Noun. A speculative scheme that depends on unstable factors that the planner cannot control. "A real estate bubble"

Exact synonyms: Bubble
Generic synonyms: Scheme, Strategy

2. Noun. An unstable construction with playing cards. "He built three levels of his cardcastle before it collapsed"
Exact synonyms: Card-house, Cardcastle, Cardhouse
Generic synonyms: Construction, Structure

Definition of House of cards

1. Noun. A structure made by laying cards perpendicularly on top of each other ¹

2. Noun. (idiomatic) A structure or argument built on a shaky foundation ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of House Of Cards

house husband
house husbands
house keeper
house martin
house martins
house master
house mice
house mouse
house music
house number
house numbers
house of God
house of accommodation
house of cards
house of correction
house of detention
house of ill repute
house of prayer
house of worship
house officer
house organ
house organs
house paint
house painter
house painting
house parties
house party

Literary usage of House of cards

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Scientific Sophisms: A Review of Current Theories Concerning Atoms, Apes by Samuel Wainwright (1883)
"... CHAPTER V. A house of cards. "SPONTANEOUS Generation" therefore, not less than " Transmutation of Species," is merely " a puerile hypothesis. ..."

2. The Annals of Bristol in the Nineteenth Century by John Latimer (1887)
"The effect was instantaneous, the structure collapsing, according to the expression of an eyewitness, like a child's house of cards. Not a vestige was left ..."

3. Laura Secord: The Heroine of 1812: a Drama by Sarah Anne Curzon (1887)
"The younger played : Small care had he for Rome's ambitious deeds, Or Parthian prowess; his whole mind was set To build a house of cards, ..."

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