little tin god

A little tin god has a pleasant time of it, no doubt, until the coming of the eighteen carat gold idol.

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

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

His prime predilection was Lamont, of whom, their mutual acquaintances were wont to pronounce, he made a little tin god on wheels.

You say there was a light in the tent—I suppose Anson was there tinkering with his little tin god of a timepiece.