very thing

But it does remind us that when we obliterate the social pact, we destroy the very thing that gives our lives meaning.

They placed their faith in a corrupt Northern businessman—the very thing their antebellum Southern ancestors feared.

“In some sense all of this feels like a callback from the prior Trump administration, where the president and his allies would accuse his opposition of doing this very thing they were setting out to do,” Mark Hays, a senior policy analyst at Americans for Financial Reform, told Salon.

Of course Trump, the master of projection, was going to, and did, accuse the attorney general of the very thing that Trump himself was guilty of: weaponizing the Justice Department.

I know there need to be more roles like the very thing we’re talking about, but I don’t like when it’s boxed inside of a trope.