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самый что ни на есть

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gen. outright (неразложимое сочетание gramota.ru Баян); sheer (неразложимое сочетание gramota.ru Баян); downright (неразложимое сочетание gramota.ru Баян); every inch (She is every inch a movie star.After tying the knot in a star-studded ceremony last month, Vicky Pattison and her husband Ercan Ramadan were every inch the celebrity power couple. Abysslooker)
Игорь Миг confirmed
amer. the most exquisite (Val_Ships)
fig. true (См. пример в статье "натуральный". I. Havkin); mere (См. пример в статье "самый настоящий". I. Havkin); smack-dab (обычно говоря о затерянных местах, глухомани • On May 27, 2020, 41-year-old Nathan Campbell hired a charter plane out of Talkeetna to fly him to a small lake in the northwest corner of Denali National Park. He planned to spend the next four months alone smack-dab in the center of Interior Alaska. -- в самой что ни на есть глухомани, в самом центре внутренней части Аляски anomalien.com ART Vancouver)
idiom. the real deal (= a thing that is absolutely genuine or authentic; the real thing (idioms.thefreedictionary.com) • The manifestation, he recalls, stood upright like a large person. “It got bigger as the roar got louder.” (...) “It was scary. It was real. Nobody will make me change my mind with it,” he said. “Me and three other guys really seen it, smelled it, heard it. I really think it was the real deal. ... I really believe it to this day.” sfgate.com ART Vancouver)
inet. if ever there was one (Der_weisse_Rabe)
inf. honest-to-God (It is the honest-to-God truth! – Это самая что ни на есть правда! Adamodeus); no kidding (P68)
самый что ни на есть
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