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tin god

[ tin god ]

noun

  1. a self-important, dictatorial person in a position of authority, such as an employer, military officer, critic, or teacher.
  2. a person who believes they are infallible and tries to impose judgments, beliefs, standards of behavior, etc., on subordinates.


tin god

noun

  1. a self-important dictatorial person
  2. a person erroneously regarded as holy or venerable
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of tin god1

First recorded in 1885鈥90
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Idioms and Phrases

A self-important, dictatorial, petty person who imposes ideas, beliefs, and standards on subordinates. For example, The officials in these small towns often act like tin gods . The tin in this expression alludes to the fact that tin is a base metal with relatively little value. [Late 1800s]
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鈥淭he law is what he lives by. He鈥檒l do his best to prevent someone from beating up somebody else, then he鈥檒l turn around and try to stop no less than the Federal Government鈥攋ust like you, child. You turned and tackled no less than your own tin god鈥攂ut remember this, he鈥檒l always do it by the letter and by the spirit of the law. That鈥檚 the way he lives.鈥

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I鈥檓 told he鈥檚 the little tin god of Tintown.

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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.

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If the three schools should be tied, and it should all hang on the Pentathlon, why, the fellow who won that would be a regular tin god, you know; he'd go down in the history of the school like George Washington in the history of the country.

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

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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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