the real thing

noun

: something that is genuine and not a copy or imitation : something that is truly valuable or important

The diamond turned out to be the real thing.

You've done very well in your training. Let's just hope you're ready for the real thing.

Examples of the real thing in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

That’s the marker — anything vaguer likely isn’t the real thing. — Hanna Wickes, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 July 2026

Employers, consumers and other stakeholders want the real thing, not a machine trained on Messi’s past plays. — Bhaskar Chakravorti, Fortune, 25 July 2026

There was something so sinister about FIFA pushing the idea of diversity while bending the knee to a government working to discard the real thing. — Olivier Lafontant, Pitchfork, 20 July 2026

There is another category of bread, known as fake or faux sourdough, also referred to as sourfaux, that is often labeled as sourdough but differs from the real thing in several important ways. — Victoria Spencer, Martha Stewart, 18 July 2026

Rhymes for the real thing

• anything
• colouring
• everything
• nuzzling
• snorkeling
• splattering
• superstring
• underwing
• worshiping
• bing
• bring
• ching