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if there ever were one
- Alternative form of if ever there was one.
1835, [Charles Badham], “Notes”, in Brief Recollections, Chiefly of Italy, by an Amateur, Glasgow: Bell and Bain, page 27:The Saint, is Ignatius Loyola, the famous Captain General of the Jesuits; a man of genius, if there ever were one;—the painter, Rubens; and this undoubtedly one of the finest of that master’s inimitable works.
1966, Norman Phillips, “Kern River Isabella Lake”, in Map of Kern River, Lake Isabella, Kernville, Wofford-Heights, California (Kym’s Guide: Maps and Charts of Recreation Areas; No. 11), Los Angeles, Calif.: Triumph Press Inc., column 2:Discussing trout first, the Kern River in its higher elevations abounds in the choice golden, a trophy fish if there ever were one.
1979, Frank Yerby, chapter 35, in A Darkness at Ingraham’s Crest: A Tale of the Slaveholding South, New York, N.Y.: The Dial Press, →ISBN, page 565:[…] by convincing her that his dying father, Captain Wallace Bibbs—an upright man if there ever were one!—had left you to him in his Will.
2011, J.T. Ellison, chapter 38, in So Close the Hand of Death, Don Mills, Ont.: Mira Books, →ISBN, page 296:That he had planned on being a medical ethicist but instead had been drawn into profiling by Garrett Woods, a Machiavellian man if there ever were one.