1898 July 234/2 ‘Now just how bad are you?’... ‘About as bad as they come, sir,’ he said.
1925 21 Feb. 22/1 A play as nearly perfect as they come.
1961 6 101/1 He's as lazy as they come.
1998 (Nexis) 10 Dec. 30 We need these points to rise above mid-table but Leicester at Welford Road is as tough as it comes.
2009 (Nexis) 31 July 20 Everything about the latest incarnation of the Porsche Boxster harks back to the classic Spyder of the 1950s, but the car is as modern as they come.