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whole enchilada

adjective as in gross

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Any campaign to defeat Trump will have to include voters who are willing to cross the lines to vote for the alternative, but don’t expect them to swallow the whole enchilada.

From Salon

“Maybe I don’t feel like doing the whole enchilada of a full sex, orgasmic experience, but maybe we can make out ... or take a shower together and explore each other’s bodies without any commitment or expectation for it to go anywhere else.”

Trump during a Monday radio interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity said that Russia "took over nothing" while he was in office but was going for the "whole enchilada" with President Joe Biden in the White House.

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Instead, even with the likes of Alan Cumming, Colm Meaney and Danny Huston on hand to deliver the Chandler-esque dialogue by way of screenwriter William Monahan, the whole enchilada deflates into a mess of pasty rice and beans.

“Maybe I don’t feel like doing the whole enchilada of a full sex, orgasmic experience, but maybe we can make out ... or take a shower together and explore each other’s bodies without any commitment or expectation for it to go anywhere else.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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