ifthereeverwereone

1. Alternative form ofif ever there was one.
   • 1835, [Charles Badham], “Notes”, inBrief Recollections, Chiefly of Italy, by an Amateur, Glasgow: […] Bell and Bain,page27:

     TheSaint, 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”, inMap 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 fishif there ever were one.

   • 1979,Frank Yerby, chapter 35, inA Darkness at Ingraham’s Crest: A Tale of the Slaveholding South, New York, N.Y.:The Dial Press,→ISBN,page565:

     […] by convincing her that his dying father, Captain Wallace Bibbs—an upright manif there ever were one!—had left you to him in his Will.

   • 2011,J.T. Ellison, chapter 38, inSo Close the Hand of Death, Don Mills, Ont.:Mira Books,→ISBN,page296:

     That he had planned on being a medical ethicist but instead had been drawn into profiling by Garrett Woods, a Machiavellian manif there ever were one.

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