The thing

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.