From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
To: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
Cc: Nathan Trapuzzano <nbtrap@nbtrap.com>,
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Eshell and lexical bindings
Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2013 15:22:20 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k3grs4pv.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87txfvdczx.fsf@rosalinde.fritz.box>
Stephen Berman writes:
> FYI, the phrase is "whole hog", typically in the idiom "go whole hog"
> (in American English; in British English the idiom is apparently "go the
> whole hog"). It's similar to "go all out", which you may also have been
> thinking of.
I think in this case Stefan's exact meaning would likely be captured
by "go for it" (or more CC ("commercially correct" :-) but not as
exact) "Just Do It".
The "whole hog" has somewhat sloppy connotations, BTW. I'd never say
that *to* one of my contributors with the meaning of "go right ahead
(do whatever you want)", though it surely would be appropriate to say
*of* Ben Wing that he frequently "goes the whole hog." :-)
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-02 6:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-31 15:27 Eshell and lexical bindings Nathan Trapuzzano
2013-10-31 15:31 ` Nathan Trapuzzano
2013-10-31 17:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-11-01 10:22 ` Nathan Trapuzzano
2013-11-01 12:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-11-01 12:39 ` Nathan Trapuzzano
2013-11-01 17:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-11-01 21:32 ` Stephen Berman
2013-11-02 6:22 ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
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