The whole lot; everything needed, desired, or expected. Also with intensifying adjective, as full, whole, etc.
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Speaker: I was- I was supposed to go last year but I just couldn't go with my son and daughter-in-law and leave the other kids behind. I mean I have to- if I'm going I gotta go the works. Interviewer: Yeah, you gotta go all the way. |
The whole lot; everything needed, desired, or expected. |
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Well that was a- it was a big controversy- I mean that was the age of ah, you-know, Pierre-Trudeau. You know it was a bilingual, bicultural politics and it was- that was s-- ah separatism, you-know, F-L-Q, the works. And it had manifested itself in every part of- of Engla--, predominately English-Canda. Ah and at the time, (inc) I remember the time ah how controversial it was and I remember, you-know, like when dynamite showed up in the mail-box how frightened my mother was and- |
The whole lot; everything needed, desired, or expected. |
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Interviewer: And do you remember getting sick with chickenpox or- Speaker: Yeah, measles and- I think I had the works (laughs). Interviewer: Were they- were they really bad in those days? Speaker: Um, well now- |
The whole lot; everything needed, desired, or expected. |
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Speaker: And it- we never got charged until I got to about maybe fourteen fifteen and then costs escalated. But this whole area was here was a swimming p-- Interviewer: Swimming area. Speaker: Swimming pool, yeah. This is the works- Interviewer: Oh. Speaker: Department down here. Now they've got it into- they- you-know, it- it's still used as- |
The whole lot; everything needed, desired, or expected. |