put on a pedestal

It’s interesting to see a man who is put on a pedestal by the world being taken down to his inner child by the person who knows him the most.

We don't want to be put on a pedestal.

I want to hear from the people that I put on a pedestal that they are hanging on by a thread.

"It is surely worth considering who we, quite literally, put on a pedestal and why," its director of policy, Alesha De-Freitas, told BBC News.

Now she is being put on a pedestal and having candles and flowers and meals.