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Exact Match:

house of cards

an unstable construction with playing cards; "he built three levels of his cardcastle before it collapsed"

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"

Synonyms:

• 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