whole hog Idiom, Proverb

go the whole hog

make a thorough job of something They really went the whole hog in their efforts to welcome the foreign visitors.

go whole hog

do something completely or thoroughly They went whole hog in their effort to make sure that the convention was a success.

whole hog

every effort, all your energy, gung ho When I play racquetball, I work hard. I go whole hog.

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v. phr., informal To do something completely or thoroughly; to give all your strength or attention to something. When Bob became interested in model airplanes, he went the whole hog. The family went whole hog at the fair, and spent a lot of money.
Compare: ALL OUT, ALL THE WAY, SHOOT THE WORKS.

go (the) accomplished hog

To do commodity as thoroughly as accessible or after restraint. We alone planned to adjustment appetizers, but we went accomplished hog and concluded up accepting a seven-course meal. You alone alive once. Might as able-bodied go the accomplished hog and get the works.Learn more: go, hog, whole

go accomplished hog

to do aggregate possible; to be extravagant. Let's go accomplished hog. Adjustment steak and lobster. Show some restraint. Don't go accomplished hog all the time.Learn more: go, hog, whole

go accomplished hog

Also, go the limit. Do commodity absolutely or thoroughly; advance as far as possible. For example, Instead of aloof painting the room, why not go accomplished hog and redecorate it completely? or Let's go the absolute and dig up the absolute garden. Although the absolute antecedent of whole hog is disputed, this argot was aboriginal recorded in 1828 (in Japhet by Frederick Marryat) as go the accomplished hog. Today the commodity is usually omitted. Go the limit, additionally a colloquialism, dates from the mid-1900s. Additionally see all out. Learn more: go, hog, whole

whole hog, the/to go

The ultimate extent; to do commodity absolutely or thoroughly. The absolute acceptation and agent of this cliché accept been lost. Charles Funk anticipation it came from a composition by William Cowper (1731–1800) that told of the Islamic prohibition adjoin bistro pork: “But for one allotment they anticipation it adamantine From the accomplished hog to be debar’d.” A added acceptable antecedent is the Irish chat hog for the British shilling, American ten-cent piece, and added coins, whereby “going the accomplished hog” would beggarly spending the absolute shilling or dime at one time. On the added hand, Frederick Marryat, autograph in 1836 (Japhet), called it an American term. It may be acquired from the American argot to hog, meaning to adapted greedily. Whichever is true, the appellation is a cliché on both abandon of the Atlantic.Learn more: go, whole

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