Usually means: Structure built from playing cards.
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  1. house of cards: Merriam-Webster
  2. house of cards: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. house of cards: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. house of cards: Collins English Dictionary
  5. house of cards: Vocabulary.com
  6. house of cards: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. house of cards: Wiktionary
  8. house of cards: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. house of cards: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. house of cards: Dictionary.com
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  12. house of cards: Rhymezone
  13. house of cards: FreeDictionary.org
  14. house of cards: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. house of cards: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. house of cards: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. house of cards: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. house of cards: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (house of cards)

noun:  A structure made by stacking playing cards in a pyramidal fashion.
noun:  (by extension, often attributive) Any structure with alternating vertical and horizontal layers.
noun:  (figurative, idiomatic) A structure or argument built on a shaky foundation.

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