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houses of cards
n. (house of cards English)
Usage examples of "houses of cards".
The rock structures, resembling houses of cards against the backdrop of the gigantic mountains, had been built by the dwarves of Mithril Hall, by Bruenor's ancestors, hundreds of years before, when the place had been called Dwarvendarrow.
All Joe could see was the fairy stories of his childhood collapsing like houses of cards.
Like giant houses of cards, great slabs of stone had been cunningly laid together to form dwellings, and though they had been deserted for more than a hundred years, the seasons and the wind had not reclaimed them.