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feet of clay

Word definitions for feet of clay in dictionaries

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Feet of Clay may refer to: Feet of clay , someone who appears strong or invincible, but who actually has a hidden weak point that could cause their demise Feet of Clay , a 1917 film starring Barney Fury Feet of Clay (1924 film) , a 1924 silent film directed ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
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.