genuine article

Ohtani wanted the genuine article and told reporters after the game, “For me, it’s a very special ball, so I’m thankful.”

The resulting constructions, the study authors report, looked, felt, and smelled just like the genuine article—and even had the durability of natural wood.

Trump-imitators have not fared as well as the genuine article.

Right now Bachelor Nation youths love the "Golden" season, as do the Olds, because the network sold Turner as the genuine article.

For the genuine article, try Naxos’ new, unabridged recording of “The Phantom of the Opera,” in which the sumptuous grotesqueries of Gaston Leroux’s oft-adapted 1910 novel are further empurpled by the rich sepulchral timbre of Bill Homewood’s voice, in a deliciously ghastly narration.