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
How would you support it on the basis of consideration of the general view of the system represented by the whole enchilada, us, the climate, everything in the global bag?
From New York Times • Jan. 27, 2018
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
