Meaning of house of cards | Babel Free
/ˈhaʊs.ʌvˌkɑɹdz/Definitions
- A structure made by stacking playing cards in a pyramidal fashion.
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Any structure with alternating vertical and horizontal layers. attributive, broadly, often
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A structure or argument built on a shaky foundation. figuratively, idiomatic
Equivalents
العربية
بَيْت مِنْ وَرَق
Deutsch
Kartenhaus
Español
castillo de naipes
Suomi
korttitalo
Français
château de cartes
Italiano
castello di carte
日本語
トランプタワー
Nederlands
kaartenhuis
Polski
domek z kart
Português
castelo de cartas
Русский
ка́рточный до́мик
Svenska
korthus
Examples
“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.”
“Dolmens impress only by their massiveness: their house-of-cards construction is the simplest possible […]”
“Also, it has been proposed that lithium ions can be adsorbed on both sides of the graphene sheets that are aggregated disorderly into a “house of cards” architecture, leading to two layers of lithium for each graphene sheet […]”
CEFR level
C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.