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houses of cards

houses of cards is the plural of house of cards.

Meaning of house of cards

Noun

house of cards (plural houses of cards)

  1. A structure made by stacking playing cards in a pyramidal fashion.
  2. (attributive, broadly, often) Any structure with alternating vertical and horizontal layers.
    • The essentials of megalithic construction are either the single large slab or the large slab as walling stone with another large slab resting on two or more large walling stones as a capstone—a sort of house of cards architecture.1958, Glyn Edmund Daniel, The Megalith Builders of Western Europe, page 18
  3. (figuratively, idiomatic) A structure, argument, or arrangement that is inherently flimsy or fragile and thus might collapse if any adversity were to come along and challenge it.

Questions about houses of cards

What is houses of cards the plural of?
Houses of cards is the plural of house of cards.

Words near houses of cards in the dictionary

  1. houses divided
  2. houses of accommodation
  3. houses of assembly
  4. houses of assignation
  5. houses of call
  6. houses of cards
  7. houses of commons
  8. houses of correction
  9. houses of detention
  10. houses of ease
  11. houses of easement

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