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Meanings of real McCoy in английском

Informal usage attributing authenticity.

Synonyms
Examples for "real thing"
Examples for "real thing"
1
However, Mr Morgan-Smith admitted it was quite different to the real thing.
Radio NZ
2
The individual is the only real thing in nature and in life.
Cæsar or Nothing
3
He was the real thing, a good player; he had the feel.
Life
4
Yes, it's a real thing, and many people speak it fluently apparently.
Radio NZ
5
The real thing was far too important to be trusted to royalty.
From hell with love
1
You couldn't sell costume jewelry that year, let alone the real stuff.
The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
2
We always try to refer back to real stuff, just to see.
Wired
3
It's all real stuff filled in, your name, your address, Ocean Heights.
Getting in: a novel
4
I downed another glass of tequila-thereal stuff, not the synthetic crap.
Afterlife: the resurrection chronicles
5
The real stuff is in him, after all, and plenty of it, too.
Red Pepper's Patients / With an Account of Anne Linton's Case in...
Usage of real McCoy in английском
1
They make good copies these days, but this is the real McCoy.
Millionaire's women
2
Twenty percent are saying he's the ' real McCoy' and he's being truthful.
The way of the world
3
I say he's got the real McCoy concealed on his person.
Wired
4
You can also download the real McCoy in the Excel format.
Wired
5
Bottom line, who are we to judge if she's the real McCoy or not?
Larry's kidney: being the true story of how I found myself in ch...
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CONSIDERING its fame, "the real McCoy" is a phrase of curiously obscure origin.
The Irish Times
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Then she grabbed the real McCoy and ran.
Death masks
8
Even worse, they're not even the real McCoy.
News.com.au
9
I guarantee they are the real McCoy.
The vaults
10
Well, maybe you found a real McCoy.
Watch them die
11
What if it was the real McCoy?
Hula Done It?
12
The Kellys are the real McCoy.
The Irish Times
13
No, this was the real McCoy.
The way of the world
14
This is the real McCoy.
Project Mastodon
15
Was his George Hamilton tan the real McCoy or was it the result of weekly visits to a local tanning salon?
Pasta Imperfect
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Only somebody who knows what a Cannes 2015 already looks like will be able to tell that this is the real McCoy.
The Irish Times