1 Or building a house of cards.

2 If the house of cards that is the budget agreement should shiver, skin the Madagascarians.

3 Alongside the urge to blow down the house of cards comes a tender impulse towards reconstruction.

4 His proposal was nothing but a house of cards.

5 Our lives are like a house of cards.

6 They do not apart like a house of cards if The Relationship doesn't work out.

7 But the Federation is like a house of cards: disturb one and the whole structure wobbles.

8 The empire collapsed like a house of cards, and the republic was again proclaimed.

9 I tried to build a house of cards but is soon toppled down.

10 As the stress continues to build, the financial house of cards is beginning to fall.

11 The enormous national debt amassed in the last eight years makes all this apparent prosperity nothing but a house of cards.

12 The whole model of race-linked characteristics ensuring success in sport has the solidity of a house of cards.

13 If my house has collapsed at one blow,[] that is because it was a house of cards.

14 Their plan for a trip to Europe proved to be just a house of cards.

15 But on these sound foundations, Iceland has also built a financial house of cards.