From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Nathan Trapuzzano <nbtrap@nbtrap.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Eshell and lexical bindings
Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2013 22:32:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87txfvdczx.fsf@rosalinde.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv7gcspaqi.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Fri, 01 Nov 2013 08:30:01 -0400")
On Fri, 01 Nov 2013 08:30:01 -0400 Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>>> all-hog
>> What is this?
>
> I'm not a native speaker, and have never really learned the exact
> meaning, but my understanding of it is a mix of "all the way",
> "bluntly", and "without looking back".
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.
Steve Berman
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-01 21:32 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 [this message]
2013-11-02 6:22 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
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