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 house of cards
      n 1: 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" [syn: bubble]
      2: an unstable construction with playing cards; "he built three
         levels of his cardcastle before it collapsed" [syn: cardhouse,
          card-house, cardcastle]