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Hidden character faults
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feet of clay
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Feet of Clay was a 1924 American silent drama film directed and produced by Cecil B. DeMille , starring Vera Reynolds and Rod La Rocque , and with set design by Norman Bel Geddes . The film is based on the novel by Margaretta Tuttle, and Beulah Marie Dix ...
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n. (context idiomatic English) In someone apparently strong and without failings, a hidden weakness which could cause his or her downfall.
Usage examples of feet of clay.
Here, for my head of gold, my breast of silver, my legs of iron and my feet of clay.
That had been the pivot, the moment in which the rock had begun rolling toward his feet of clay-begun with rumbled warnings the stroke which had cut him off as severely as a surgeon attacking gangrene.
She keyed to Cachat's channel, feeling obscurely unhappy that the man was proving to have feet of clay, after all.
We became hip, struggled to include the disenfranchised, marched for peace, and learned, painfully, that we and our leaders sometimes had feet of clay.
Reason told him the creature had already shown feet of clay, yet the feeling that here was an invincible being persisted.