tin god | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic)Afalsegod,particularlyapettytyrant, apersonwhoabusesorexceedstheirauthorityover others inpettyways.1886,Rudyard Kipling, “[Departmental Ditties] Public Waste”, inDepartmental Ditties[…], New York, N.Y.: M. F. Mansfield & A. Wessels, published1899,→OCLC:Wherefore the LittleTin Godsharried their little tin souls, / Seeing he came not from Chatham, jingled no spurs at his heels;[…]1909, Frederic William Wileet al.,Our German Cousins, page89:InPrussiaalone there are 492Landräte—a sort of district commissioner—all Government officials or directly in touch with the central government, and all littletin godsin their own district.1943March 3, Redacted Dodgeville, Wisconsin, Draft Board member, FBI report:[Frank Lloyd Wright] was regarded by members of the[Taliesin]fellowshipas somewhat of an idol, atin god, or a master, who could do no wrong.1967, “This Side of Paradise”, inStar Trek: The Original Series, season 1, episode25(television production), Paramount Pictures:ELIAS: Well, Doctor, I've been thinking about what sort of work I could assign you to.MCCOY: What do you mean, what sort of work? I'm a doctor.ELIAS: Not any more, of course. We don't need you. Not as a doctor.MCCOY: Oh, no? Would you like to see just how fast I can put you in a hospital?ELIAS: I am the leader of this colony. I'll assign you to whatever work I think is suitable.MCCOY: Just a minute. You'd better make me a mechanic. Then I can treat littletin godslike you. (He punches Elias.)

Examples:

EN: This makes 436 times I've looked at this little tin god, waiting for the verdict, always knowing what the answer will be.
ES: He mirado 436 veces este cacharro, esperando el veredicto, sabiendo siempre cual es la respuesta.
EN: Just say she's attractive, and there was a lot of moonlight, and- and I'm no tin god.
ES: Ella es atractiva, la luna brillaba... y yo sólo soy de carne y hueso.
EN: He listens to you like you were a tin god.
ES: Te escucha como si fueras Dios.
EN: He's a spoiled baby masquerading as a little tin god.
ES: Es un crío disfrazado de Dios.
EN: She thinks I'm her husband's pal, and she can't believe her husband's pal would be any less of a tin god than he was.
ES: Cree que soy el amigo de su esposo, ...y no puede creer que ese amigo de su esposo no sea un semi dios como lo era él.
EN: Deb wouldn't go for it. I told you, Jim was a tin god.
ES: Deb no se lo tragaría, ya te lo he dicho, Jim era un semi dios.
EN: What are you supposed to be, a little tin god?
ES: ¿Qué se supone que es, un pequeño dios de hojalata?
EN: I don't go for the paper hat and the tin god.
ES: Yo no valgo para las espadas de juguete.
EN: I know how he feels about your little tin god on a mantelpiece.
ES: sé lo que siente por Ud un pequeño ídolo de barro sobre la chimenea!
EN: - Let me go, you tin god. Alright.
ES: ¡Suéltame, maldito!
EN: Maybe you are a legend- a tin god. You know what you are to me?
ES: Quizás seas una leyenda, un ídolo.
EN: You all make a little tin god of that Stahlman.
ES: Convertís a ese Stahlman en un pequeño dios de hojalata.
EN: Do you people know what your tin god is up to?
ES: ¿Saben lo que está planeando su jefe?
EN: We got a message for your little tin god.
ES: Tenemos un mensaje para su pequeño dios de hojalata.
EN: You're a little tin god, aren't you?
ES: Eres un falso dios, ¿no?

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