feet of clay
Example Sentences
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The place that looks like an eternal fortress turns out to have feet of clay — and I mean that literally, as you will see.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 3, 2024
"The economic recovery, which is built on feet of clay, is thus beginning to falter," the survey said.
From Reuters ● May 8, 2023
PSG are described by someone who deals regularly with them as a "club with feet of clay, outwardly strong but with severe weakness under the surface".
From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2022
I believe that Egypt has feet of clay in the Arab world.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 8, 2021
He and the other boys run around in the mud; large extra feet of clay stick to the soles of their boots, leaving tracks like monsters.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
