whole works
Example Sentences
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Please, however, be generous with the dill, which brightens up the whole works.
From Salon • Jun. 16, 2022
Now if you play for the team for a month, you get a ring and the whole works.
From New York Times • Nov. 3, 2021
Our system of primaries, general elections and governance as a whole works best when multiple ideologies and approaches are allowed to vie in the marketplace of ideas.
From Washington Times • Jan. 14, 2020
Writing against the grain of one’s existing beliefs or instincts or knowledge often causes a sudden surge in energy that can turn out to reframe and inform and charge whole works with surprising new power.
From The Guardian • Aug. 18, 2018
She put the whole works in the toe of a stocking, pushed the wad into a rubber overshoe, and stood it with its fellow in the back of her closet.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
