{"id":276,"date":"2014-05-19T14:23:20","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T12:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/?p=276"},"modified":"2014-05-20T17:42:31","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T15:42:31","slug":"idiom-52-the-real-mccoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/idiom-52-the-real-mccoy\/","title":{"rendered":"Idiom 52 &#8211; The real McCoy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Our new CFO is <em>the real McCoy (der wahre Jakob) &#8211; <\/em>he has decades of experience working for some of the\u00a0 biggest multinationals in the world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"shrinkToFit decoded alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/4\/44\/A_Glass_of_Whiskey_on_the_Rocks.jpg\" alt=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/4\/44\/A_Glass_of_Whiskey_on_the_Rocks.jpg\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" \/>The most plausible explanation for the origin of this idiom comes from the McKay family &#8211; makers of fine Scottish whisky from 1856 onwards. There are many examples of the phrase &#8222;the real McKay&#8220; in use in Scotland beginning in the second half of the 19th century. Somewhere in its travels across the Atlantic to America, the phrase changed to the form we know today: &#8222;the real McCoy&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our new CFO is the real McCoy (der wahre Jakob) &#8211; he has decades of experience working for some of the\u00a0 biggest multinationals in the world. The most plausible explanation for the origin of this idiom comes from the McKay family &#8211; makers of fine Scottish whisky from 1856 onwards. There are many examples of [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"__cvm_playback_settings":[],"__cvm_video_id":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions\/280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}