The phrase "flimsy relationship" is a valid, commonly used expression in written English.
It is often used to describe a relationship which is weak or lacking in commitment. For example, "The couple had a flimsy relationship and it quickly fell apart after they moved in together."
Otherwise sober institutions present filmic extravaganzas with only the flimsiest relationship to science (an upbeat promotional travelogue about Saudi Arabia is now getting the Imax treatment at Boston's Museum of Science).
"This kind of game," he said, "in which anybody who I know, regardless of how flimsy the relationship is, somehow their ideas could be attributed to me — I think the American people are smarter than that".
Most buildings are narrow, drab, dirty, flimsy, irregular in relationship to one another — a set of bad teeth".
The line between what's domestic and what's international in the relationship is flimsy.
"I was just asked previously about a whole host of issues and associations that are a lot more flimsy than John McCain's relationship to Keating Five, Mr. Obamaa said.
In her songs relationships are flimsy or worse, and their impact is felt in Ms. Cole's powerful, unchecked voice.
As long as marriage and love and relationships have high stakes for us emotionally, they have the potential to offer rich subject material for novelists, no matter how flimsy or comparatively uninteresting contemporary relationships seem on their surface.
But in this play (which became the movie "Boom," with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton), the relationships are too flimsy and contrived to generate the emotional fireworks of, say, "A Streetcar Named Desire" or "The Glass Menagerie".
Homicides are way down and we are seeing old enemies build lasting relationships instead of flimsy truces.
