whole ball of wax

When Kavanaugh does venture into legal analysis, he frequently flattens his reasoning into a single phrase that, in his telling, settles the whole ball of wax.

“A whole ball of wax for him, pressure-wise, to have the world watching and to play against some of the best teams in the world.”

“Peter and the Wolf” was the sound of making it: the playing, the narration and amplification, the whole ball of wax.

The whole ball of wax is on the ballot.

But every notch is a step closer to the whole ball of wax, and what if someday I wake up all dressed in red with a knife under my pillow and I look back and go, If only I'd blown off Brick that night...