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