go the whole hogとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Origin uncertain; the following etymologies have been suggested:

• A reference to using the whole of a hog’s carcass for food, leather, etc., without wasting any part; or specifically to a poem by the English poet William Cowper (1731–1800), “The Love of the World Reproved” (published 1782) in which uncertainty among Muslims about which parts of a hog are permitted as food leads to the whole animal being eaten.
• A reference to hog (“(Ireland, New Zealand, UK, historical, slang) shilling; (US, obsolete, rare) ten-cent coin, dime”), possibly in the context of spending the entire sum of money.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈɡəʊ ðə həʊl ˈhɒɡ/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈɡoʊ ðə hoʊl ˈhɔɡ/, (cot–caught merger) /-ˈhɑɡ/
• 韻: -ɒɡ

動詞

go the whole hog (third-person singular simple present goes the whole hog, present participle going the whole hog, simple past went the whole hog, past participle gone the whole hog)

1. (intransitive, originally Canada, US, idiomatic, informal) To do something as completely or entirely as possible; to hold back or reserve nothing. [from early 19th c.]

   Synonyms: go all out, go ham, go the entire animal, pull out all the stops

   If you can afford a new computer, you might as well go the whole hog and get it custom built.

   • 1831 June 4, “[Miscellaneous]”, in H[ezekiah] Niles, editor, Niles’ Weekly Register, […], volume IV, number 14 (Fourth Series; volume XL, number 1,028, overall), Baltimore, Md.: H. Niles, →OCLC, page 234, column 2:

     Having nothing else to do, I thought that I might, in part, amuse myself by observing the proceedings and listening to the remarks of a certain sea-captain (also a visiter at the same time), an Englishman born, and, though a naturalized citizen, an Englishman still in his heart, and notable for the rotundity of his assertions—"going the whole hog," as the saying now is. All his notions of perfection seemed to be derived from English things; […]

   • 1852, “All about Pigs”, in Charles Dickens, editor, Household Words. A Weekly Journal, volume V, number 123, New York, N.Y.: Angell, Engel & Hewitt, […], →OCLC, page 474, column 1:

     [W]e have, it is hoped, gone "the whole hog" in showing the main points in the life and death of a pig, and the varied services which—willingly or not—he renders to man.

   • 1853, [Susanna] Moodie, chapter II, in Life in the Clearings versus the Bush, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 50:

     To gain influence in Canada, and be the leader of a party, a man must, as the Yankees say, "go the whole hog."

   • 1922, Marcel Proust, “Swann in Love”, in C[harles] K[enneth] Scott Moncrieff, transl., Remembrance of Things Past: Part One: Swann’s Way, volume II, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 12:

     “[…] We had a glimpse of a Swann tremendously agitated. In a state of nerves. You see, Odette had left.” / “You mean to say that she has gone the ‘whole hog’ with him; that she has ‘burned her boats’?” inquired the Doctor cautiously, testing the meaning of his phrases.

   • 1938 February 11 (date written), Dorothy Thompson, “Our Dangerous Friends”, in Let the Record Speak, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company […], published 1939, →OCLC, page 131:

     Professor [Charles Austin] Beard at least goes the whole hog, and being logical and intelligent, is prepared to draw the full consequences of his conception of security.

   • 2022 October 14, Tom McTague, “The Liz Truss Travesty Becomes Britain’s Humiliation”, in Jeffrey Goldberg, editor, The Atlantic‎, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 July 2025:

     And then, today, she [Liz Truss] went the whole hog, sacking her chancellor [Kwasi Kwarteng] and abandoning even more of her plan.

別の表記

• go whole hog (chiefly US)

関連する語

• totus porcus
• whole hog

参考

• all the way
• full throttle
• the whole nine yards

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