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as they come

adv

Definitions

  1. As it is possible to be.

    • "Has he got a pulse?" "With that hole in his head? You kiddin', a pulse? Give me a break, will ya? He's about as dead as they come.
    • My eight-year-old, as die-hard a Potterholic as they come, a kid who can probably remember Hogwarts minutiae that even JK has forgotten, walked out of the multiplex and gave it a five out of 10.
    • “He wants to get along. He thinks he’s friends with Putin. I don’t think Putin thinks he’s friends with him. Putin’s as coldblooded as they come.”

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for as they come. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA