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phrase
- Synonym of the very idea
"Your point of view," she laughed. "You lacked perspective. Now if you did not have to get so close to the subject -- " "The very thing!" I cried. "What I need is a longer club. And there's that broken oar ready to hand."
1904, Jack London, chapter 30, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLCSynonyms: the very idea
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phraseSynonym of the very idea
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the very thing. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/the%20very%20thing
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“the very thing.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/the%20very%20thing. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “the very thing,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/the%20very%20thing.
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