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heap
1) A crowd; a throng; a rabble.--Johnson. This very old sense of the word is now provincial both in ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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whole
Made out of whole cloth, i. e. altogether an invention. Isn't this entire story about your Jersey g...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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to go the whole figure
To go to the fullest extent in the attainment of any object. Go the whole figure for religious libe...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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to go the whole hog
A Western vulgarism, meaning to be out and out in favor of anything. A softened form of the phrase i...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.