Question of the Day #962

And we say, if you’re going to be an English purist, you might as well go whole hog and say the word “nausea,” technically, should only refer to seasickness.

From the 6th paragraph of this article at Reader's Digest.

  上記の文で、go whole hogの意味は？
In the sentence above, what does "go whole hog" mean?

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解答

意味：
英辞郎によると、

〈話〉完全に［徹底的に・とことんまで・存分に］やる

なお、go the whole hog  

Answer

According to Dictionary.com:

To engage in something without reservation or constraint

   

Examples

• “At first, the general had his doubts about the plan, but finally he decided to go whole hog.”
• Why not go the whole hog and make them take in a stranger as a lodger? - The Sun (2011)
• With them it was whole hog or nothing
• They went whole hog and had a lavish wedding.
• The company went whole hog on the new system, with a state-of the-art automated warehouse system including RFID tracking.

   

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