honest-to-God
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Access to honest-to-God race cars is one of the many perks of membership at the recently launched Singer Drivers Club, housed at the Willow Springs International Raceway about 80 miles north of Los Angeles.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
But it is not a show about honest-to-God people.
From Salon • Aug. 10, 2025
It was a call to arms, a campaign strategy session, and—above all—an honest-to-God old-fashioned Pentecostal tent revival.
From Slate • Sep. 25, 2024
“For the first time in years, USC has an honest-to-God athletic director rather than a former football player,” Neinas told The Times in 2022.
From Los Angeles Times • May 25, 2023
She was taller, but so was I. She had on a blue polo shirt, a sweater honest-to-God tied around her neck, diamond studs that glinted even under the bad fluorescent hallway lights.
From "The Miseducation of Cameron Post" by emily m. danforth
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