cardhouse

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cardhouse - an unstable construction with playing cards; "he built three levels of his cardcastle before it collapsed"

cardcastle, card-house, house of cards

structure, construction - a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts; "the structure consisted of a series of arches"; "she wore her hair in an amazing construction of whirls and ribbons"

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He put me in mind straightaway of Jeremy Cardhouse, one of the great comic creations of Peter Simple, the Daily Telegraph's satirist of half a century ago, the right wing's answer to Private Eye.

Cameron knows what he should do, he just needs to be told to do it

Standout tracks Trainspotting and Cardhouse show a band with great potential - despite being together less than a year.