| 单词 | tin god |
| 释义 | > as lemmas(little) tin god b. figurative in reference to tin as a base metal, esp. in comparison with silver: Mean, petty, worthless, counterfeit. (Cf. copper n.1 Compounds 1c) Frequently in (little) tin god. Also tin Jesus (only in the work of G. B. Shaw). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > forgery, falsification > [adjective] counterfeitedc1385 counterfeitc1386 trothlessa1393 bastard1397 forged1484 apocryphate1486 adulterate?a1509 mockisha1513 sophisticate1531 adulterine1542 adulterous1547 mock1548 forbate1558 coined1582 firking1594 feigned1598 adulterated1610 apocryphal1612 spurious1615 usurpeda1616 impostured1619 mock-madea1625 suppository1641 affictitious1656 pasteboard1659 sophisticated1673 flam1678 Brummagem1679 sham1681 belieda1718 fictitious1739 Birmingham1785 pinchbeck1790 brummish1803 Brum1805 flash1812 spurious1830 bogus1839 imitative1839 dummy1846 doctored1853 postiche1854 pseudo1854 Brummagemish1855 snide1859 inauthentic1860 fake1879 bum1884 Brummie1886 tin1886 filled1887 duff1889 faked1890 shicec1890 margarine1891 dud1904 Potemkin village1904 mocked-up1919 phoney baloney1936 four-flushing1942 bodgie1956 moody1958 disauthentic1960 bodgied1988 bodgied-up1988 the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > insubstantial > showy or fanciful but insubstantial frivol1492 fustian1523 triflinga1538 tirlery1546 trumpery1576 mockado1577 skipjack1597 flashy1598 trifle1607 fripperya1625 bagatelle1637 fingle-fangled1651 tawdry1696 sauntering1726 gimcrack1751 folderol1820 tin1886 shicec1890 cotton candy1951 candyfloss1957 1886 R. Kipling Departm. Ditties (1899) 24 The Little Tin Gods harried their little tin souls. 1902 Daily Chron. 10 July 3/3 Those funny little tin revolutions affected by the South American States. 1905 H. A. Vachell Hill ix. 187 I hope he's not going to make a sort of tin parson of you. 1909 Our German Cousins xv. 89 In Prussia alone there are 492 Landräte—a sort of district commissioner—all Government officials or directly in touch with the central government, and all little tin gods in their own district. 1917 S. Lewis Job xiii. 193 If they'd work like sixty they might get to be little tin gods on wheels like himself? 1928 R. Campbell Wayzgoose ii. 55 Of Tin Gods you may oft have heard or read But this one was entirely made of lead. 1930 G. B. Shaw What I really wrote about War xii. 368 The victorious Chauvinists..derided him [sc. Woodrow Wilson] as ‘a tin Jesus’. 1951 E. Coxhead One Green Bottle v. 115 We economists are going to be the little tin gods of this generation. 1978 ‘M. M. Kaye’ Far Pavilions vi. xxxvi. 534 With luck the ‘Tin Gods’ who had banished him to Gujerat..would leave him alone. < as lemmas |
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