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right stuff

noun

, Informal.

Usually the right stuff. the necessary or ideal qualities or capabilities, as courage, confidence, dependability, toughness, or daring.

First recorded in 1925–30

It left me knowing what I already suspected, that Jane has the Right Stuff.

The Mossad devotes an exceptional amount of time and effort determining if an operative possesses the "right stuff."

Ex-Bush aide Mark McKinnon keeps waiting for Romney to turn his campaign around and show the right stuff.

He has lived where he wanted and still got to make The Right Stuff and his greatest film, The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

Few whites believed that blacks had the right stuff to tackle tricky and arduous long-distance flights.

"It's the right stuff," she said, between laughing and crying.

The fellows that make pioneers are the right stuff—you know that.

Simply because there is not enough of him, or what there is is not of the right stuff.

Would he regard me as the right stuff of which to make a man?

Now these blessed cartridges packed full of the right stuff put an end to furtive doubts.

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