golden calf

Example Sentences

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The focus on the fate of the golden calf is understandable.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 5, 2023

Since then, the concept of the worshiping of a "golden calf" has become a stand-in for a supreme act of apostasy, the rejection of a faith once confessed.

From Salon • Nov. 7, 2020

As the Guardian’s Jason Farago reported late last year, director Romeo Castellucci’s recent production for Paris’s Opera Bastille included “a real live golden calf – a bull, actually”.

From The Guardian • Mar. 29, 2016

Groaned the bobby-soxers’ golden calf: “Di’nt seem hard a’tall. Ah’m sure Ah passed!”

From Time • Mar. 24, 2015

Trotter sucked in her breath and glowered down at her like Moses at the Israelites’ golden calf.

From "The Great Gilly Hopkins" by Katherine Paterson