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Whole works   /hoʊl wərks/   Listen
Whole works

noun
1.
Everything available; usually preceded by 'the'.  Synonyms: full treatment, kit and boodle, kit and caboodle, whole caboodle, whole kit, whole kit and boodle, whole kit and caboodle, whole shebang, works.  "A hotdog with the works" , "We took on the whole caboodle" , "For $10 you get the full treatment"






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"Whole works" Quotes from Famous Books



... shaking his head, his little eyes nearly popping with fright. "It wasn't him," he choked. "Ingersoll had nothing to do with it. It was Dartmouth Bearing. They bought me into the spots. Got me the newspapers, supported me. Dartmouth Bearing ran the whole works, and they ...
— Bear Trap • Alan Edward Nourse

... of Dickens's whole works, with several hundred illustrations by George Cruikshank, H. K. Browne, and ...
— English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. - How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. • Graham Everitt

... I've a right to treat him any damned way I please, but nobody else is going to abuse him! These Spaniards can't do it! I'll teach them to lay hands on my—boy." He tore a handkerchief from his pocket and blew a blast into it. "I'll tear their little Republic to pieces," he shouted. "I'll buy the whole works and throw it away. I'll buy their President and their courts and their whole infernal population, and if they won't sell I've got enough men to take it. Hell's bells, madam, do you think these little black people can shoot MY son? I don't care ...
— The Ne'er-Do-Well • Rex Beach



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