house of cards 的定义
- a structure or plan that is insubstantial and subject to imminent collapse, as a structure made by balancing playing cards against each other: The scheme is so overly complicated that it's likely to prove to be just another house of cards.
house of cards 近义词
等同于 flimsy
更多house of cards例句
- This Congress will welcome more women than ever before at 19 percent of the House and 20 percent of the Senate.
- Even internally in the House, women are not getting their fair shake.
- He then provides some insight into his psyche - complete with Animal House reference.
- Even the arguably more democratic House is only at 10 percent black members.
- While 19 percent of the House is female, just one woman will get to chair one of its 20 committees.
- It was a decayed house of superb proportions, but of a fashion long passed away.
- A Yankee, whose face had been mauled in a pot-house brawl, assured General Jackson that he had received his scars in battle.
- On the thirteenth of the same month they bound to the stake, in order to burn alive, a man who had two religious in his house.
- Old Mrs. Wurzel and the buxom but not too well-favoured heiress of the house of Grains were at the head of the table.
- It goes without saying that Ferns of all kinds are interesting plants to grow in the garden and house.