Informal usage attributing authenticity.
1They make good copies these days, but this is the real McCoy.
2Twenty percent are saying he's the ' real McCoy' and he's being truthful.
3I say he's got the real McCoy concealed on his person.
4You can also download the real McCoy in the Excel format.
5Bottom line, who are we to judge if she's the real McCoy or not?
6CONSIDERING its fame, "the real McCoy" is a phrase of curiously obscure origin.
7Then she grabbed the real McCoy and ran.
8Even worse, they're not even the real McCoy.
9I guarantee they are the real McCoy.
10Well, maybe you found a real McCoy.
11What if it was the real McCoy?
12The Kellys are the real McCoy.
13No, this was the real McCoy.
15Was his George Hamilton tan the real McCoy or was it the result of weekly visits to a local tanning salon?
16Only somebody who knows what a Cannes 2015 already looks like will be able to tell that this is the real McCoy.