tin god
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Its plausible air lasts until the final scenes; then the hero goes out of character and the picture goes off on a little sentimental jag to treat him like a tin god.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Oh!" said the newly-made captain, "I'm not one of your old-fashioned sort that thinks an owner a little tin god."
From A Master of Fortune Being Further Adventures of Captain Kettle by Stanley L. Wood
She's so confoundedly respectful—acts as if I were a little tin god.
From Two Thousand Miles Below by Charles Willard Diffin
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 E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
And as she thinks him a tin god on wheels, she ceased to argue.
From Set in Silver by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson
