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real thing

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real thing
something that is genuine and not an imitation. I don't want frozen yogurt, I want the real thing! Yes, ice cream! She hates plastic that looks like wood. She wants the real thing.
See also: real, thing


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"They are all like that," Geraldine whispered "when they've been face to face with the real thing.
I had made a pipe a while back, and also some pretty fair tobacco; not the real thing, but what some of the Indians use: the inside bark of the willow, dried.
Well, it was because he did not know what the real thing was,' he thought, concerning that Vasili Brekhunov.
 
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