| 单词 | card castle |
| 释义 | > as lemmascard castle card castle n. a precarious structure built by balancing playing cards on their edges in a series of tiers, typically forming a pyramid; also figurative and in figurative contexts, as the type of something elaborately constructed but unstable, insubstantial, or subject to imminent collapse (cf. house of cards at Phrases 2), or of a fanciful or foolish idea. [Compare French château des cartes (1690 in figurative use).] ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > other toys > [noun] > others spurc1450 cock1608 turnel1621 corala1625 house of cardsa1625 Jack-in-the-box1659 (Prince) Rupert's Drops1662 sucker1681 whirligig1686 playbook1694 card house1733 snapper1788 card castle1792 Aaron's bells?1795 Noah's Ark1807 Jacob's ladder1820 cat-stairs1825 daisy chain1841 beanbag1861 playboat1865 piñata1868 teething ring1872 weet-weet1878 tumble-over1883 water cracker1887 jumping-bean1889 play money1894 serpentin1894 comforter1898 pacifier1901 dummy1903 bubble water1904 yo-yo1915 paper airplane1921 snowstorm1926 titty1927 teaser1935 Slinky1948 teether1949 Mr Potato Head1952 squeeze toy1954 Frisbee1957 mobile1957 chew toy1959 water-rocket1961 Crazy Foam1965 playshop1967 war toy1973 waterball1974 pull-along1976 transformer1984 Aerobie1985 1665 R. Boyle Occas. Refl. iv. xvii. sig. Hh3v As Children oftentimes do with their Cards, when having taken a great deal of pains to build fine Castles with them, they themselves afterwards ruine them with their Breath.] 1792 T. Holcroft Anna St. Ives VII. cxvi. 3 To anticipate is to overturn the card-castles of this puny race. 1795 Tribune 29 Apr. 89 To think of protecting the country by these castles built with cards—for card castles would be of as much importance as the castles his Grace of Richmond has planned. 1829 T. Carlyle in Foreign Rev. Dec. 117 The reader..would err widely who supposed that this transcendental system of metaphysics was a mere intellectual card-castle. 1917 D. Hannay Diaz iv. 89 There could be no reasonable doubt that the utterly artificial Empire of Maximilian would be brought down like a card castle. 2019 Baltimore Sun (Nexis) 12 July (First ed.) (Life & Travel section) 7 r When will the financial card castle come crashing down? < as lemmas |
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