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

A week or two more and the "little tin god" would go down off his wheels.

From A Soldier of the Legion by Williamson, C. N. (Charles Norris)

"You think you're quite the little tin god, don't you?"

From The Golden Amazons of Venus by Reynolds, John Murray

He’s a little tin god on wheels, Margaret, that can do no wrong.

From The Turn of the Tide The Story of How Margaret Solved Her Problem by Porter, Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman)

You ain't any little tin god on wheels.

From Steve Yeager by Raine, William MacLeod