thing is

A form of the thing is — Used to shift focus to an overriding point or impediment.

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  1. alternativeAlternative form of the thing is.
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    One of the better jokes arrives late into the movie, when Guy is forced to take on a brawny he-man doppelgänger—a planned addition to the game’s sequel—who the programmers haven’t finished scripting, and his unfinished dialogue is all placeholders. Thing is, that could describe a lot of Free Guy. Both its humor and CGI bumper-car set pieces have an “insert fun here” quality.

    2021 August 6, A. A. Dowd, “The Ryan Reynolds action-comedy Free Guy is a Truman Show for the Fortnite age”, in The A.V. Club
Cite this entry
APA

thing is. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/thing%20is

MLA

“thing is.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/thing%20is. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “thing is,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/thing%20is.

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