be built like a brick shithouse: seeshithouse.
built on sand without secure foundations; liable to collapse.
☞ This phrase comes from the biblical parable contrasting the wise man who built his house on rock with the fool who built his on sand (Matthew 7:24–7).
Rome was not built in a day: seeRome.
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