Meaning of go the whole hog | Babel Free

Definitions

To do something as entirely or completely as possible; to reserve or hold back nothing.

UK, colloquial, idiomatic

Examples

“If you can afford a new computer, you might as well go the whole hog and get it custom built.”

“"Just for a moment. We had a glimpse of a Swann tremendously agitated. In a state of nerves. You see, Odette had left." "You mean to say that she has gone the 'whole hog' with him; that she has 'burned her boats'?" inquired the Doctor cautiously, testing the meaning of his phrases.”

“And then, today, she went the whole hog, sacking her chancellor and abandoning even more of her plan.”

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