as they come

as they come (not comparable)

1. (idiomatic) As it is possible to be.
   • 1997, Leonard B. Scott, Solemn Duty‎^[1], New York: Ballantine Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, 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 November 25, Charlie Fletcher, “Has Potter movie magic lost its spell?”, in Scotland on Sunday:

     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.

• with the best of them

• “as they come”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

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