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
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
Being conscripted into this idiotic space fleet that never fights is bad enough without a tin god on jets like Slichow!
From The Talkative Tree by Fyfe, Horace Brown
I’m told he’s the little tin god of Tintown.
From The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett by MacKenzie, Compton
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
