英语词汇“to go the whole hog”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

P4. colloquial (originally North American) to go the whole hog: to do something completely, thoroughly, or fully. [Origin uncertain. Perhaps arising from the following verses, which relate a supposed dispute among Muslims about which specific part of a pig dietary restrictions applied to:

1782 W. Cowper Poems I. 320 But for one piece they thought it hard From the whole hog to be debarr'd; And set their wit at work to find What joint the prophet had in mind.

1782 W. Cowper Poems I. 321 Thus, conscience freed from ev'ry clog, Mahometans eat up the hog.

Many other explanations have been suggested, e.g.:1852 Househ. Words 31 July 474/1 When a Virginian butcher kills a pig, he is said to ask his customers whether they will ‘go the whole hog’, as, in such case, he sells at a lower price than if they pick out the prime joints only.A connection with sense 11a has also been suggested.]

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the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > act or do vigorously [verb (intransitive)] > act in thoroughgoing manner

to go the whole hog1825

to go the whole figure1831

to go the whole (also entire, etc.) animal1833

to go for the doctor1907

1825 Louisville (Kentucky) Public Advertiser 28 May 2/4 A warm partisan..who was every way capable, in their own language, to ‘go the whole hog round’.

1826 J. Kerr Rip Van Winkle i. iii. 25 Terrapin! Ah! Dame, I leaves you to go the whole hog.

1839 Times 11 Apr. 4/1 If so, let him ‘go the whole hog’ in candour.

1876 W. H. G. Kingston Hist. Brit. Navy 533 Russia has gone the whole hog, and has now produced two circular monitors.

1929 S. Anderson in Mercury Story Book 234 I went the whole hog.

1973 Times 28 Mar. 4/4 He does not go the whole hog with his father in his belief in the arcane and ancient mysteries of [bacon-]smoking.

2006 Daily Tel. 21 Apr. 28/5 Where Numan has often dabbled in eyeliner-caked industrial rock of the Marilyn Manson variety, Jagged goes the whole hog and embraces goth..in all its cod-Wagnerian pomp.

单词	to go the whole hog
释义	> as lemmas to go the whole hog P4. colloquial (originally North American) to go the whole hog: to do something completely, thoroughly, or fully. [Origin uncertain. Perhaps arising from the following verses, which relate a supposed dispute among Muslims about which specific part of a pig dietary restrictions applied to: 1782 W. Cowper Poems I. 320 But for one piece they thought it hard From the whole hog to be debarr'd; And set their wit at work to find What joint the prophet had in mind. 1782 W. Cowper Poems I. 321 Thus, conscience freed from ev'ry clog, Mahometans eat up the hog. Many other explanations have been suggested, e.g.:1852 Househ. Words 31 July 474/1 When a Virginian butcher kills a pig, he is said to ask his customers whether they will ‘go the whole hog’, as, in such case, he sells at a lower price than if they pick out the prime joints only.A connection with sense 11a has also been suggested.] ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > act or do vigorously [verb (intransitive)] > act in thoroughgoing manner to go the whole hog1825 to go the whole figure1831 to go the whole (also entire, etc.) animal1833 to go for the doctor1907 1825 Louisville (Kentucky) Public Advertiser 28 May 2/4 A warm partisan..who was every way capable, in their own language, to ‘go the whole hog round’. 1826 J. Kerr Rip Van Winkle i. iii. 25 Terrapin! Ah! Dame, I leaves you to go the whole hog. 1839 Times 11 Apr. 4/1 If so, let him ‘go the whole hog’ in candour. 1876 W. H. G. Kingston Hist. Brit. Navy 533 Russia has gone the whole hog, and has now produced two circular monitors. 1929 S. Anderson in Mercury Story Book 234 I went the whole hog. 1973 Times 28 Mar. 4/4 He does not go the whole hog with his father in his belief in the arcane and ancient mysteries of [bacon-]smoking. 2006 Daily Tel. 21 Apr. 28/5 Where Numan has often dabbled in eyeliner-caked industrial rock of the Marilyn Manson variety, Jagged goes the whole hog and embraces goth..in all its cod-Wagnerian pomp. extracted from hogn.¹ < as lemmas
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