little tin god
Example Sentences
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She's so confoundedly respectful—acts as if I were a little tin god.
From Two Thousand Miles Below by Diffin, Charles Willard
"Meaning you're a little tin god?" she chaffed.
From The Gray Dawn by White, Stewart Edward
He is all the time lashing himself into a fury over imagined wrongs and wanting to play the little tin god on Olympus with his threatened strikes.
From Nobody's Man by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)
He thinks he's a little tin god on wheels—and honestly, it makes some people weak and sick just to think about him!
From The Magnificent Ambersons by Tarkington, Booth
She thought you were a little tin god on wheels, and told me after you'd gone that you'd come back and thrash me.
From The Wreck of the Titan or, Futility by Robertson, Morgan
