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US, slang (everything) tutto quanto nm. (informale) l'intera baracca, tutta la baracca nf. (questione astratta) intera faccenda nf. Give me a shampoo, haircut, permanent, and facial; I want the whole ball of wax. ⓘ. Questa frase non è una traduzione della frase inglese.
If you talk about the whole ball of wax, you mean the whole of something, including everything connected with it. Perry wanted it all the fame, the money, the glamour — the whole ball of wax. Note: The usual British expression is the whole caboodle. See also: ball, of, wax, whole.
Whole ball of wax. | Grammarist. | Idiom. The whole ball of wax means the whole thing, everything. The whole ball of wax is an American idiom of uncertain origin, so far it has been traced back to at least the 1880s. Many apocryphal stories have sprung up to explain the origin of the phrase the whole ball of wax, but it is most likely a ...
BALL OF WAX Definizione: everything, including all details , parts, etc., relating to a particular matter | Significato, pronuncia, traduzioni ed esempi
The meaning of BALL OF WAX is affair, concern. How to use ball of wax in a sentence.
Not all the allusions in these slangy terms are clear. Ball of wax may refer to a 17th-century English legal practice whereby land was divided among heirs by covering scraps of paper representing portions of land with wax, rolling each into a ball, and drawing the balls from a hat.
Britannica Dictionary definition of BALL OF WAX. [singular] US, informal. 1. : a situation or set of conditions. He's a good amateur, but playing basketball at the professional level is an entirely different ball of wax. [=an entirely different thing] 2. : a collection of items or objects.
