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
Nice fellow, that shoeman—or he will be when he gets over thinking I’m a tin god and sits down and plays crib like I was an ordinary human being....
From The Innocents A Story for Lovers by Lewis, Sinclair
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
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
