The thing

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The needful thing: something suitable for the purpose. predicative

    "This book isn't quite the thing."

  2. 2
    The desired thing: someone or something that is popularly favored. predicative

    "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."

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