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the whole megillah

Everything; the entirety of something. There's nothing more to tell you. That's the whole megillah. While I'm in Europe, I want to go to Paris, London—the whole megillah.
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whole megillah

Also, whole schmeer. Everything, every aspect or element, as in The accountant went through the whole megillah all over again, or Her divorce lawyer took him for the house, the car, the whole schmeer. The first term alludes to the Megillah, five books of the Bible read on certain Jewish feast days and considered by some to be very long and tedious. Schmeer is Yiddish for "smear" or "smudge." [Slang; second half of 1900s]
See also: Megillah, whole
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 2003, 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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(7) Schmeer P., http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cvnet-out burst/message/2072 (2007)
The menu is to the point, although everything is described with cod-coolness - for instance, your cheeseburger is "the whole schmeer" with low-fat cheddar, American or Swiss cheese.
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Camera (color, HD), George Tiffin, Claudio Rocha, Marcus Birsel; video camera, Pollack, Guilfoyle; editor, Karen Schmeer; music, Sorman & Nystrom; sound, Jon Oh; associate producers, Brainerd Taylor, Suzanne Weil.
Schmeer, Arlene C., Mercenene Cancer Research Institute, 790 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06511
Camera (color), Peter Donahue, Robert Chappell; editor's, Karen Schmeer, Doug Abel, Chyld King; music, Philip Glass; additional music, John Kusiak; production designers, Ted Bafaloukos, Steve Hardy; sound, Steve Bores; supervising sound editor, Coll Anderson; sound designer, Tom Paul; visual effects supervisor, Robin Hobart; 3-D animator, Zachary Morong; animation and visual effects, Evan Olson; associate producers, Ann Petrone, Adam Kosberg.
burnetii using the same ELISA as used by Schmeer et al.
(e) The ELISA used in Germany and in all studies listed in this table (except for [59], for which no information was provided) is based on the test developed by Schmeer et al.
Camera (color, 16mm/HD-to-HD vid), Moss; editor, Karen Schmeer. Reviewed at Sundance Film Festival (Documentary Competition), Jan.
Tech aspects are smoothly handled; Errol Morris vet Karen Schmeer's editing is savvy.
Camera (color, digital video), Laurel Greenberg, Small; editor, Karen Schmeer; music, Kaoru Ishibashi; associate producer, Craig Bouchard.
Camera (Duart color), Robert Richardson; editors, Karen Schmeer, Shondra Merrill; music, Caleb Sampson; production design, Ted Basaloukos; set decoration, Scott Doonan; sound (Dolby), Steve Benes, Fred Burnham; assistant directors, Eric Korsh, Thomas Burke.
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