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the (whole) works (informal) everything that you might want or might expect to find in a particular situation The bridegroom was wearing a morning suit, top hat, gloves - the works. (informal) See gum up the works, shoot the worksSee also: work How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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It is only to be regretted [49] that in the later collected edition of the works those two magical old volumes are broken up and scattered under other headings. The large stones were loaded on trollies which conveyed them in the same direction as the others, that is to say, towards the works of which D'Artagnan could as yet appreciate neither the strength nor the extent. In English philosophy too, many affinities may be traced, not only in the works of the Cambridge Platonists, but in great original writers like Berkeley or Coleridge, to Plato and his ideas. |
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