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Phrase(s): shoot the works
1. to do everything; to use everything; to bet all one’s money. • Okay, let’s go out to dinner and shoot the works. • Don’t shoot the works! Save some for a cab. 2. Sl. to empty one’s stomach; to vomit. • Suddenly she turned sort of green, and I knew she was going to shoot the works. • After she shot the works, she looked fine—but I was sort of pale.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs