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go whole hog

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go whole hog
to do everything possible; to be extravagant. Let's go whole hog. Order steak and lobster. Show some restraint. Don't go whole hog all the time.
See also: hog, whole

go whole hog
to do something as completely as possible We decided the only way we could afford vacations is to go camping, so we went whole hog and got the tents and sleeping bags and everything else.
See also: hog, whole


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Their brief ascendance can be worth examining if it illustrates their era or those around them, or, if you're going to go whole hog on the biopic thing, if it digs deep in the root cellar of personal psychology.
Six hundred dollars a month is when you go whole hog and get it managed, mission critical, top-of-the-line T1," be said.
Rather than go whole hog, Kerry's approach is one of "raging incrementalism," as The Wall Street Journal reports.
 
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