15 Dec
2006
15 Dec
'06
10:01 a.m.
David Abrahams writes:
IMO, in context, "the whole enchilada" is sufficiently obvious, but if non-native speakers contradict me I'll happily remove it.
FWIW, I wasn't familiar with the expression and had to look it up. Also, and also FWIW, according to Cambridge International Dictionary of English (http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=90418&dict=CALD), it's an Americanism :). -- Aleksey Gurtovoy MetaCommunications Engineering