shoot the works
Example Sentences
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You put your heart and soul into everything and shoot the works, because you got energy and strength and purpose.
From New York Times • Oct. 13, 2022
The dish shows how good Ms. Blamey can be when she starts with underestimated ingredients like cabbages and onion and decides to shoot the works.
From New York Times • Apr. 5, 2022
President would have from satellites, radar and other means, he would decide to shoot the works.
From Time Magazine Archive
This season, sadder but wiser Fair officials decided to shoot the works along the Midway with a $600,000 supercolossal patriotic spectacle, American Jubilee, which would be a small fair in itself.
From Time Magazine Archive
There's one thing I can't do—and that is get away with a thing like that on false pretences—I'd rather shoot the works on one roll and crap than use the sort of dice that behave.
From Young People's Pride A Novel by Benét, Stephen Vincent
