"the thing" meaning in English

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          "text": "This book isn't quite the thing.",
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        "The needful thing: something suitable for the purpose."
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        "(predicative) The needful thing: something suitable for the purpose."
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          "ref": "1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section I, page 16:",
          "text": "He liked Tom all right. […] Sampson and Bullock he could do without, however. Especially Sampson, who was too much of a grammar-school-type swot ever to be quite the thing.",
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          "ref": "2017 November 2, Ben Brantley, “Review: ‘Junk’ Revives a Go-Go Era of Debt and Duplicity”, in The New York Times:",
          "text": "“When did money become the thing — the only thing?” Ms. Lim’s character asks in the opening monologue.",
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          "ref": "2018 September 30, Steve Politi, “A Rutgers fan's secret to survival: Beer. Lots and lots of beer.”, nj.com",
          "text": "Brewfest needs to become the''' thing at Rutgers."
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          "ref": "2018 December 26, Avery Anapol (quoting Claire McCaskill), “McCaskill on Ocasio-Cortez: ‘I’m a little confused why she’s the thing’”, The Hill",
          "text": "\"I'm a little confused why she's the thing,” McCaskill told CNN."
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        "The desired thing: someone or something that is popularly favored."
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        "(predicative) The desired thing: someone or something that is popularly favored."
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