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Rope of sand

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  1. 1
    Something incohesive, flimsy, disconnected or unreliable idiomatic

    "If any flaw can be detected in this reasoning, its author will be the first to admit that these Institutes are, from beginning to end, a mere rope of sand; but if no flaw can be detected in it, he begs to crave for them the acknowledgment that they are a chain of adamant."

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