the thing with/about
idiom
: an important characteristic to know about (someone or something)
The thing with/about him is that he is not reliable.
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But that’s the thing about making things look real, as opposed to imaginatively not real, or illustrative the way some animation embraces.
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Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 11 June 2025
And that’s the thing about Hegseth’s restoration of Fort Bragg’s name, or Mr. Trump’s executive orders on historical monuments or his garden of heroes.
—Jeffery Vacante, Hartford Courant, 10 June 2025
Adding more anxiety is the belief that Janiyah carries a bomb, when in fact the thing with flashing lights and beeping sounds in her daypack is a child’s school project.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 6 June 2025
That was the thing about Succession — its characters were monstrous, but the show never lost sight of their fleshly fallibility, their doubts and vulnerabilities.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 31 May 2025
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Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 11 June 2025
And that’s the thing about Hegseth’s restoration of Fort Bragg’s name, or Mr. Trump’s executive orders on historical monuments or his garden of heroes.
—Jeffery Vacante, Hartford Courant, 10 June 2025
Adding more anxiety is the belief that Janiyah carries a bomb, when in fact the thing with flashing lights and beeping sounds in her daypack is a child’s school project.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 6 June 2025
That was the thing about Succession — its characters were monstrous, but the show never lost sight of their fleshly fallibility, their doubts and vulnerabilities.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 31 May 2025
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“The thing with/about.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20thing%20with%2Fabout. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.
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