tin god
Example Sentences
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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
"He thinks he's a little tin god on wheels," the drayman said.
From Main-Travelled Roads by Garland, Hamlin
You say there was a light in the tent—I suppose Anson was there tinkering with his little tin god of a timepiece.
From The City of Numbered Days by Lynde, Francis
The duke may remain a duke, but he won’t be such a little tin god on wheels.
From The Rough Road by Locke, William John
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)
