The phrase "a flimsy foundation" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe something that is unstable or likely to fail. For example: - "The company's success was built on a flimsy foundation of debt and false promises." - "Their relationship was doomed from the start, built on a flimsy foundation of lies and mistrust." - "The argument fell apart when it was revealed that it was based on a flimsy foundation of assumptions rather than facts."
Yet Armstrong's credibility rests on a flimsy foundation: he hasn't been caught.
Politicians of both parties agree that dimples would make a flimsy foundation for a presidency; they agree that punch-card ballots should be abandoned, but predict that they will survive, because they are cheap.
Given that Mr. Gingrich led the Iowa and national polls mere weeks ago, the post-mortems for his campaign have literally already been written, with the news media depicting him as an Icarus-like figure who fell back to earth on the basis of a flimsy foundation.
It is a flimsy foundation upon which to build a relationship and should be made secondary to the solid firmament of love.
Venue in New Jersey seems to have been based on the debtor's management company, which seems to be a rather flimsy foundation (the manager is not in bankruptcy).
And yet, even with the flimsy foundation, the content industry continues with its plan of attack on technology and innovation.
In the current political climate, it would be tempting for the Italian or French governments simply to tell the commission to take a hike.Such a confrontation would expose the flimsy foundations of EU power.
A vision among the pits Flimsy foundations Jam, Darling?
Two writers this century have already tried to raise a substantial edifice on these flimsy foundations: but the biographies of Wilbur Cross and F Holmes Dudden are likely to be superseded by this new effort which not only draws on more than 40 newly discovered letters, but even includes three hitherto uncollected pictures of Fielding (not very exciting ones, it has to be said).
On the other side of their balance sheets, real estate bubbles and other hyper-inflated assets in the U.S. and some parts of Europe comprised the top of an asset pyramid erected with flimsy foundations.
But calls for a revaluation of 27.5% rest on flimsy foundations.
