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Re: Eshell and lexical bindings
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Stephen Berman |
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Re: Eshell and lexical bindings |
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Fri, 01 Nov 2013 22:32:34 +0100 |
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On Fri, 01 Nov 2013 08:30:01 -0400 Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> all-hog
>> What is this?
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> 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