man of the cloth

noun phrase

formal + old-fashioned
: a man who is a priest or minister

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And with that, Elijah Gemstone becomes a true man of the cloth, even if that cloth will, in future generations, be silky and bejeweled and catch the stage lights at a megachurch. — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 9 Mar. 2025 In each time period, David Kelly plays a well-meaning but blinkered man of the cloth; Sheila Tousey does the wise, wry matriarchs; and Rainbow Dickerson gets the reproachful sisters. — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2023

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