Meaning of the thing | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The needful thing: something suitable for the purpose.
   predicative
2. The desired thing: someone or something that is popularly favored.
   predicative

Examples

“This book isn't quite the thing.”

“I need a present for my friend, and I think this is just the thing.”

“He liked Tom all right. […] Sampson and Bullock he could do without, however. Especially Sampson, who was too much of a grammar-school-type swot ever to be quite the thing.”

““When did money become the thing — the only thing?” Ms. Lim’s character asks in the opening monologue.”

“Brewfest needs to become the''' thing at Rutgers.”

“"I'm a little confused why she's the thing,” McCaskill told CNN.”

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