<P> "The real McCoy" is an idiom and metaphor used in much of the English - speaking world to mean "the real thing" or "the genuine article", e.g. "he's the real McCoy". The phrase has been the subject of numerous false etymologies . </P> <P> The phrase "The real McCoy" may be a corruption of the Scots "The real MacKay", first recorded in 1856 as: "A drappie o' the real MacKay", ("a drop of the real MacKay"). This appeared in a poem Deil's Hallowe'en published in Glasgow and is widely accepted as the phrase's origin . </P> <P> In 1881, the expression was used in James S. Bond's The rise and Fall of the' Union club'; or Boy life in Canada . A character says, "By jingo! yes; so it will be . It's the' real McCoy,' as Jim Hicks says . Nobody but a devil can find us there ." </P>

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