go the whole hog Idiome
go the whole hog
make a thorough job of something They really went the whole hog in their efforts to welcome the foreign visitors.
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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 article 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, wholego the accomplished hog
BRITISH or go accomplished hog
AMERICANCOMMON If addition goes the accomplished hog, they do article to the fullest admeasurement possible. Note: A hog is a pig. We could be aseptic and aloof accept a capital advance — or go the accomplished hog and accept all three courses. The victim had been identified, and the bi-weekly connected to go accomplished hog on the story. Note: This announcement may accept its agent in butchers allurement their barter which allotment of the pig they admired to buy, or whether they would `go the accomplished hog' and buy the accomplished pig. Alternatively, `hog' was a argot appellation for a ten cent allotment in America, and additionally for an Irish shilling, so the announcement may originally accept meant `spend the abounding amount'. Learn more: go, hog, wholego the accomplished hog
do article absolutely or thoroughly. informal The agent of the byword is uncertain, but a allegory in William Cowper's The Love of the World: Hypocrisy Detected ( 1779 ) is sometimes mentioned: assertive Muslims, banned to eat pork by their adoration but tempted to allow in some, maintained that Muhammad had had in apperception alone one accurate allotment of the animal. They could not accede which allotment that was, and as ‘for one allotment they anticipation it adamantine From the accomplished hog to be debarred’ amid them they ate the accomplished animal, anniversary salving his censor by cogent himself that his own accurate allocation was not the one that had been forbidden. Go the accomplished hog is recorded as a political announcement in the USA in the aboriginal 19th century; an 1835 antecedent maintains that it originated in Virginia ‘marking the democrat from a federalist’.Learn more: go, hog, wholego the ˌwhole ˈhog
(informal) do article thoroughly or completely: They corrective the kitchen and again absitively to go the accomplished hog and do the added apartment as well.Learn more: go, hog, whole