as they come
English
Adverb
as they come (not comparable)
- (idiomatic) as it is possible to be
- 1997, Leonard B. Scott, Solemn Duty, New York: Ballantine Books, →ISBN, LCCN 96-95383, OCLC 1043690763, page 64:
- "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.
- 2001, Charlie Fletcher, "Has Potter movie magic lost its spell?", Scotland on Sunday, 25 November 2001:
- 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.
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See also
- with the best of them
Further reading
- “as they come”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Anagrams
- haemocytes