real thing

And if the Martian methane is a real thing, it has some interesting implications.

Forgeries are works made deliberately to resemble the real thing.

These medical missions were practice runs for the real thing.

“Turns out typecasting is a real thing,” Hader laughs, responding to that reaction.

This practice, which is a real thing, is more commonly referred to as a “double-tap.”

"It's the real thing, you know," he explained; and Charity hastily revised her previous conception of the beverage.

If he had one real thing to cling to, to put his feet on and climb back from— One thing like his name.

I've seen the paper left by the dying man, and I'd stake my reputation that it's the real thing.

Here, as in other districts that we have referred to, the power of faith-healing is a very real thing.

The real thing that touched her through everything was Expectancy.