house of cards
A structure made by stacking playing cards in a pyramidal fashion.
cards
UK /kɑɹdz/ US /kɑɹdz/
noun 1
Definitions
noun
1
Card games.
He's a fan of cards.
Cards is my fave game, above any board game.
Collocations
5ADJ.
all, fun, fun, new, popular
We played with all the new cards we got for our birthday.
VERB + CARDS
cheat, cheating, credit, feel, game, let's, like, play
I felt like he was cheating at cards during the poker game last night.
CARDS + NOUN
chance, fave
My fave cards are the ones with vintage designs from the 1950s.
PREP.
in, on, with
I kept all my old birthday cards in a box under my bed.
ADV.
already, carefully, instead
She carefully shuffled the cards before dealing them to the other players.
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Idioms & Phrases
in the cards
Destined or fated to happen; predicted or foreseen.
I don't think another child is in the cards for them.
play one's cards right
To act correctly; to make the right moves.
If you play your cards right, you'll get the promotion you've been waiting for.
on the cards
Likely to occur, probable.
Wolves, sensing the comeback of all comebacks was on the cards, kept pressing and set up an exciting finish when Ronald Zubar's header was judged to have crossed the line, even tho
keep one's cards close to one's chest
To avoid revealing one's thoughts, circumstances, or plans.
Balthus has always kept his cards close to his chest. When I asked him if Summertime was a transcription of Poussin's Echo and Narcissus—a variant of his lost copy—he did not reply
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He's a fan of cards.
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Cards is my fave game, above any board game.
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"I feel like playing cards." "So do I."
Tatoeba · #152704
Place the deck of cards on the oaken table.
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We killed time by playing cards.
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Have you written all the New Year's cards already?
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