Idiom
whole enchilada
Meaning
All of something or a group of related things taken in totality.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“I do not just want a slice, I want the whole enchilada.”
“The company offered to buy the software, the hardware, and the support services, which was the whole enchilada.”
“Rather than settling for a partial settlement, the lawyer insisted that his client was entitled to the whole enchilada regarding the inheritance.”
Examples
simple
“I do not just want a slice, I want the whole enchilada.”
contextual
“The company offered to buy the software, the hardware, and the support services, which was the whole enchilada.”
complex
“Rather than settling for a partial settlement, the lawyer insisted that his client was entitled to the whole enchilada regarding the inheritance.”
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