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Examples of clay feet in a Sentence
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How many august bronze figures don’t have clay feet?
—Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2021
Its cartooned pages confirmed their suspicions that parents are hypocrites, that heroes have clay feet, that popular culture is a ripoff and that a guy might as well laugh at existence because existence is already laughing at him.
—David Von Drehle, The Denver Post, 7 July 2019
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First Known Use
1862, in the meaning defined above
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“Clay feet.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/clay%20feet. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
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