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build on sand
Idioms and Phrases
Use an unstable foundation, as in If you buy nothing but high-risk stocks, your portfolio will be built on sand . This metaphor appears in the New Testament, where Jesus likens those who do not heed his sayings to a foolish man who builds his house on sand, which then is washed away by rain, flood, and wind (Matthew 7:24–27). [c. 1600]Example Sentences
Otherwise, we are trying to build on sand or air or something equally insubstantial.
To use them for a foundation is to build on sand.
If you falter, or fail to fulfil this Golden Rule, though you should build to the heavens, you would build on sand.
To build on selfishness is to build on sand.
Those, therefore, who build arguments as to the needlessness of religion on the foundation that persons without any belief in God do exhibit all the moral virtues, build on sand.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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