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"It makes a difference when you hear the real McCoy."
If this is the real McCoy, you can count me in.
One of them was supposedly the real McCoy, but so what?
If the guy whose name is on the label answers the phone, you've got the real McCoy.
You probably can't understand that, since you're the real McCoy.
"Was the food any better in the real McCoy?"
It is closer in taste and texture to the real McCoy.
You're going to have rumors like that when one of them is supposedly the real McCoy.
"But I can tell you that this is the real McCoy."
Soon the genuine stuff was known as the real McCoy," and the rest is history.
But when it came to actually finding the real McCoy, she hadn't been so lucky.
If this guy is the real McCoy, and really knows people, you're welcome to him."
Today, the term "the real McCoy" is used to indicate perfection.
"I have been looking into them for the last three years, and - and they look like the real McCoy," he said.
Since his first story sounds like the real McCoy, I'll take the rest of it, too.
"If this stuff is the real McCoy, it's worth fifty grand to us!"
Then you're going to do the real McCoy.
But this time I know it's the real McCoy because my neighbor got shot.
I figured we had the real one, the real McCoy, because he was so hard to kill.
He was, they liked to say, the real McCoy.' "
The action shots were the real McCoy, and they gave Speed full credit.
When he does, you'll find out that what I told you is the real McCoy!"
"People have come to believe their elected officials and their candidates are not the real McCoy," he said.
Why do people call things "the real McCoy"?
People seeking top-quality products would ask, "is it the real McCoy?"