How does "house of cards" differ from "a shaky foundation"?

Mar 11, 2014 ... ... what does he do? He blames the King's cat! “Your majesty,” said he ... meaning to us. Then, with justice dispensed, the king decides ... A plan, organization, or other entity that is destined to fail due to a weak structure or foundation (likened to a literal house of cards) This does not mean that a person cannot have a rational understanding of Christianity or what the Bible teaches apart from the illumination of his mind by ... a structure or plan that is insubstantial and subject to imminent collapse, as a structure made by balancing playing cards against each other. Dec 27, 2015 ... Something being a "house of cards" usually means that it's on an extremely shaky foundation (not literally [though it could be literally...]) ... Mar 12, 2014 ... Interesting. Plot-wise, I knew the dog had to have significant meaning, but character-wise what was the purpose? Was I about to see how the ... Mar 4, 2014 ... Frank even tells us how disrespectful it is; almost as it he is some honorable man. Maybe in Frank's mind he is and that scene is meant to ... Jul 12, 2021 ... Evangelization is the proclamation of the truth, and sometimes truth can be uncomfortable or even scandalous. Does this mean we should obsess ... by Max Gladstone. I'm here because of Roger. I don't mean here-on-the-Wild Cards-blog-here, I mean, quite likely, here-writing-science-fiction here. Feb 18, 2014 ... But not to mix fact and fiction, the Claire Underwood/Ashleigh Banfield interview is one of the two major, two person dramas that will play out ...