feet of clay

The place that looks like an eternal fortress turns out to have feet of clay — and I mean that literally, as you will see.

It doesn’t appear that Sequoia or the other investors asked the fundamental questions about FTX that would have revealed its feet of clay.

He came to recognize the justices’ “feet of clay,” their human appetites and frailties.

Part of what remains invisible — in addition to the 300 feet of clay pipe installed by Metabolic Studio — is the original riverbed.

"The economic recovery, which is built on feet of clay, is thus beginning to falter," the survey said.