paper houses
Flimsy constructed shelters
Paper houses are structures that are flimsy, impermanent, or easily destroyed.
The phrase evokes buildings made of actual paper—fragile and vulnerable to fire, wind, or water.
It often appears in figurative contexts describing institutions, arguments, or plans built on weak foundations: Their whole case was a paper house that collapsed under scrutiny.
In Japanese culture, traditional houses with paper screens (shoji) give the phrase additional resonance.
- cardboardRigid paper for containers
- macheSmall salad green
- craftSkilled manual art
- ephemeralLasting very briefly
- modelRepresentation or paradigm
origami · collapsible · fold flat · shantytown · building · fragile · precarious · transient · temporary shelters · fleeting · impermanent · blow away · huff and puff · diorama · set design · cutout · vulnerability · foldable
paper housesstone houses
Residences built from rock
brick houses · concrete structures · fortresses · castles · bomb shelters
paper, papers, papered, papering, papery, paperwork, paperback, house, houses