From: Aleksey Gurtovoy (agurtovoy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-12-15 05:01:45
David Abrahams writes:
> IMO, in context, "the whole enchilada" is sufficiently obvious, but
> if non-native speakers contradict me I'll happily remove it.
FWIW, I wasn't familiar with the expression and had to look it up.
Also, and also FWIW, according to Cambridge International Dictionary
of English
(http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=90418&dict=CALD), it's
an Americanism :).
-- Aleksey Gurtovoy MetaCommunications Engineering