the next best thing

But we might have the next best thing on our hands.

Since it was real life, however, they did the next best thing.

But it had the next best thing: the force of history.

"The next best thing we did was come out and play this week."

I said the next best thing was to send some money.

I thought it would be the next best thing to living in a church.

So, since he'd had no son, he was doing the next best thing.

I mean, that's the next best thing you could do after all of this.

The President does the next best thing in giving the teacher a personal phone call.

That store was the next best thing to not working.

In my opinion, you were simply the next best thing.

It's the next best thing to the reality for her.

Opportunity cost is the value of the next best thing after making a decision.

The next best thing is to hope to do it, and that's my case.

The new museum is meant to be the next best thing.

But they did get the next best thing: the tape.

But he's done the next best thing by getting himself a uniform and a car.

It's like the next best thing to not having literature at all.

The next best thing is to have all this information that these rules would provide.

I never made it as a player, but this is certainly the next best thing.

It was, they told him, the next best thing to going away to camp.

"Instead, I have done the next best thing for you."

Videos are the next best thing to having your own teacher.

What you will find on this album is the next best things.