Something in its entirety, especially a complicated set of arrangements or a long-winded story.
‘you usually get the whole megillah, complete to the last screw’
‘And now that I've found a hairstyle that suits the inexorable genetic progress of hair erasure, it gives me pause to reflect on the whole megillah of pateness, as you put it.’
‘So give ‘em the whole megillah… Do readers really want to know how miserable you are?’
‘Johnson was decked out in lavish uniform: red and white robes, mitre, cross and crook - the whole megillah.’
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