Sentences with phrase «cards comes tumbling down»

If you lose your job, your entire financial house - of - cards comes tumbling down.

What complicates the matter further is that each spiritual belief is built upon a whole framework of other spiritual beliefs, so that if one of them begins to collapse, the whole house of cards comes tumbling down.

He just kept acquiring companies until federal regulators put a stop to it and the house of cards came tumbling down.

It's great to see the Keith Raniere's house of cards come tumbling down.

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The economy was based on a financial house of cards, which came tumbling down in 2007.

«The Synagogue,» «Jewish legalism,» and all those old slogans of our theological tradition came tumbling down like the house of cards they were.

The sneering reply that Vince's contribution to the debate was simply «spreading alarm without substance» tells the audience outside Westminster why a Prime Minister, with an attitude like this to critics, ends up with so few friends in the House and, now that his pack of cards has come tumbling down around the voters» ears, even less sympathy outside.

Surely the whole house of cards was about to come tumbling down?

Until Dawn manages to secure a significant understanding of the concept, to the point where enough eyebrow - raising and nerve - racking occurrences present themselves early enough to keep players invested, but doesn't come tumbling down like a house of cards in the first hour or two.

At the same time, the whole «old decaying structures» card is played way too often when you jump towards stuff and it suddenly collapses as you reach for it and Lara finds herself tumbling down or clinging on for dear life when a ledge comes loose.

Just goes to show you, the entire CAGW meme is a house of cards that will come tumbling down at some point.