'house of cards' definitions:
Definition of 'house of cards'
(from WordNet)
noun
A speculative scheme that depends on unstable factors that the planner cannot control; "his proposal was nothing but a house of cards"; "a real estate bubble" [syn: house of cards, bubble]
noun
An unstable construction with playing cards; "he built three levels of his cardcastle before it collapsed" [syn: house of cards, cardhouse, card-house, cardcastle]
Synonyms of 'house of cards'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- breakers ahead,
- bubble,
- cambric tea,
- cardhouse,
- cause for alarm,
- china,
- cobweb,
- crisis,
- danger,
- dangerous ground,
- dishwater,
- eggshell,
- emergency,
- endangerment,
- gaping chasm,
- gathering clouds,
- glass,
- glass house,
- gossamer,
- gruel,
- hair,
- hazard,
- ice,
- imperilment,
- jeopardy,
- matchwood,
- menace,
- milk and water,
- old paper,
- parchment,
- pass,
- peril,
- piecrust,
- pinch,
- plight,
- predicament,
- quicksand,
- reed,
- risk,
- rocks ahead,
- rope of sand,
- sand castle,
- storm clouds,
- strait,
- thin ice,
- thread,
- threat,
- water