whole enchilada
Example Sentences
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“Rescheduling is not the whole enchilada but it would be a big deal,” wrote analysts for Beacon Policy Advisors in a research note this week.
From Barron's • Dec. 16, 2025
Now, Musk says he wants the whole enchilada because of the site’s “potential to be the platform for free speech around the globe.”
From Washington Post • Apr. 14, 2022
"Their vote is the whole enchilada," Thune told Politico.
From Salon • Aug. 11, 2021
“I love the whole enchilada now,” she says.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 14, 2017
We have been given nineteen rooms to clean, most of them “checkouts,” as opposed to “stay-overs,” and requiring the whole enchilada of bed stripping, vacuuming, and bathroom scrubbing.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
