house of cards
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
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- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a speculative scheme that depends on unstable factors that the planner cannot control
his proposal was nothing but a house of cards
Types & categories
- scheme hypernym
Sense 2 noun
an unstable construction with playing cards
he built three levels of his cardcastle before it collapsed
Types & categories
- structure hypernym
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
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| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | scheme |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | structure |