have feet of clay
to have a bad quality that you keep hidden:
Some of the greatest geniuses in history had feet of clay.
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Faults and mistakes
- a blot on sb's character idiom
- aberration
- Achilles heel
- adrift
- black mark
- chink
- clinker
- creep in/creep into sth
- errata
- erratum
- error
- failing
- false alarm
- false move
- lapse
- loophole
- misprint
- misspell
- mistake
- mistaken
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