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the thing
Idioms and Phrases
Also, the in thing . Something in style or vogue, the latest trend. For example, Wearing oversized clothes is the thing these days , or Vans and sports utility vehicles have been the in thing for some time now . The first term dates from the mid-1700s; the second, which uses in in the sense of “popular,” dates from the mid-1900s. Also see the latest .Example Sentences
The thing looks suspiciously like a unicorn, horn and all.
“He’s got serious blood on his hands and he’s made a lot of mistakes. The thing that’s fun and funny about him is that all this weird stuff is happening to him, but he’s strangely not freaking out about it the way I would.”
It reminded me of the thing that gave me joy when I was a child, which was “Batman” with Adam West.
The thing about armored vehicles is that, protected by their thick armor, you feel safe until something goes wrong.
“The most important thing is that you still get to use the muscle of the thing that you really care the most about. It also is possible in some of those commercial environments, when it’s helmed by somebody who has a really personal vision, for those things to be genuinely creative.”
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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