clay Idioma

feet of clay

a hidden fault or weakness in an esteemed person The new Prime Minister has feet of clay and and may not last very long in his new position.

Barclay's (Bank)

an act of masturbation; from the rhyming slang for "wank"

have feet of clay

Idiom(s): have feet of clay

Theme: WEAKNESS

[for a strong person] to have a defect of character.
• All human beings have feet of clay. No one is perfect.
• Sally was popular and successful. She was nearly fifty before she learned that she, too, had feet of clay.

clay pigeon|clay|pigeon

n., slang, informal 1. A popular target at practice shooting made of clay and roughly resembling a pigeon; an easy target that doesn't move. All he can shoot is a clay pigeon. 2. A person who, like a clay pigeon in target practice, is immobilized or is in a sensitive position and is therefore easily criticized or otherwise victimized. Poor Joe is a clay pigeon. 3. A task easily accomplished like shooting an immobile clay pigeon. The math exam was a clay pigeon.

feet of clay|clay|feet

n. phr. A hidden fault or weakness in a person which is discovered or shown. The famous general showed he had feet of clay when he began to drink liquor. The banker seemed to be honest, but he had feet of clay and was arrested for stealing.

clay

clay
In addition to the idiom beginning with clay, also see feet of clay.

clay pigeon

clay pigeon
A person easily duped or taken advantage of, as in You're a clay pigeon for all of those telephone fund-raisers. The term alludes to the clay pigeon of trapshooting, which replaced the use of live birds in this sport in the 1860s. Its transfer to figurative use in the first half of the 1900s probably is explained by the much older slang use of pigeon for “dupe.” Also see fall guy.