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单词 feet of clay
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feet of clay

A fundamental flaw or weakness in a person otherwise revered.Then I met him and I thought he was very much a man with feet of clay, which is very sad....
  • It was Solidarity's strength that showed - to those willing to see - that the Soviet colossus had feet of clay.
  • For, most of us like our heroes with feet of clay.
With biblical allusion (Dan. 2:33) to the dream of Nebuchadnezzar, in which a magnificent idol has feet ‘part of iron and part of clay’; Daniel interprets this to signify a future kingdom that will be ‘partly strong, and partly broken’, and will eventually fall
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