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

Everybody brought their troubles to me, and I guess I thought I was a little tin god on wheels and the place couldn't get along without me.

From Where There's a Will by Rinehart, Mary Roberts

"Oh, your little tin god on wheels is not the only one," replied Helena, the astute.

From The Californians by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn

And as she thinks him a tin god on wheels, she ceased to argue.

From Set in Silver by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)

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)