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单词 be built on sand
释义
be built on sand
to not have a strong or a proper basis, and therefore to be likely to fail or come to an end
He moved into the newspaper business in the Seventies. It was an empire built on sand. The newspapers folded, and by 1981 he was bankrupt.
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