if there ever was one

English

Phrase

if there ever was one

1. Alternative form of if ever there was one.
   • 1915 September, Robert Grant, chapter XXII, in The High Priestess, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 375:

     He got so fiendy finally that Mrs. Ford—she’s a dear if there ever was one—went up and put her arms around his neck, so as to stop him by a kiss.

   • 2003 July 6, Steve Batie, “I can hear buzzing in my ears”, in Lincoln Journal Star, Lincoln, Neb., page 1G:

     Besides coming in several hippie-ish colors (i.e. not black) and being almost impossible to cradle under your chin (a harbinger of the cellular miniphone if there ever was one), the single most telling characteristic of the Ericaphone was that it did not ring.

   • 2000 September, Lucinda Rosenfeld, “Jason Barry Gold, or ‘The Varsity Lacrosse Stud’”, in What She Saw […], New York, N.Y.: Anchor Books, Random House, published September 2001, →ISBN, page 60:

     That's how ugly she was—ugly by virtue of the fact that she was unmemorable, a slab of alabaster awaiting a sculptor who never arrived, a "nothing burger" if there ever was one.