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a house of cards

A

an insecure scheme

B

a gambling house

C

a plan with high stakes

D

a place where cards are printed

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an insecure scheme a house of cards : an organisation or a plan that is very weak and can easily be destroyed, an insecure scheme. Look at the sentence: Their partners began to suspect that the company was a financial house of cards.
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