little tin god

I’m told he’s the little tin god of Tintown.

You've been posing as a little tin god before the people of this State, and all the while you've been knifing and slugging and black-jacking private capital and private business wherever and whenever they have happened to get in your way.

But just wait till the bloom is off the honeymoon, and she finds herself all alone with her little tin god among the savages!

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

Moreover, he knew, of course, that a merchant captain is by no means the almighty little tin god that most landsmen think him, even while at sea, and that in the eyes of owners he is of fairly small account.