Used when someone decides to do something without holding back or doing it halfway. She decided to go the whole hog and start her own company.
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Idiomatic Color
It's a colorful way to enhance speech and make it more engaging and memorable. For the charity event, we're going the whole hog with decorations and entertainment.
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Slight Exaggeration
Sometimes used humorously or exaggeratedly for effect, not always literally. I only asked for a trim, but the barber went the whole hog and gave me a buzzcut!