real McCoy
Example Sentences
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Banknotes were merely promises to pay money, i.e., credit, not the monetary real McCoy.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
Dear Carolyn: My spouse has severe celiac disease — the real McCoy with almost shocklike reactions requiring emergency treatment, injections, etc.
From Washington Post • Mar. 5, 2023
It’s only in theater that we come to the real McCoy, as it were.
From New York Times • May 16, 2022
The artificial fingertip was not quite as sensitive as the real McCoy, however.
From Science Magazine • Apr. 5, 2022
Even though I knew it was useless I tried tugging at the bars but they were the real McCoy, solid steel.
From "Bud, Not Buddy" by Christopher Paul Curtis
