megillah
The whole shebang
Megillah comes from Hebrew for "scroll," originally referring to the Book of Esther read during the Jewish festival of Purim.
In informal American English, megillah means a long, complicated story or elaborate affair: She told me the whole megillah about her divorce.
The phrase the whole megillah emphasizes tedious completeness or unnecessary detail.
Treated hide for manuscripts
- vellumPrepared calfskin for writing
- EstherHebrew name meaning star
- PurimAdar feast day
- TorahJudaism's core scripture
manuscript · calligraphy · scribe · Hebrew · illumination · chanting · reading · unrolling
Full and undivided
- everythingThe complete set
- rigmaroleTedious, overcomplicated procedure
- shebangEverything, in casual speech
- spielPersuasive extended talk
saga · production · ordeal · affair · business · story · deal · works
Excessively wordy, tediously so
- verboseMore words than necessary
- ramblingLong-winded and unfocused
- drawn-outExtended beyond normal duration
- interminableWithout apparent conclusion
elaborate · complicated · convoluted · exhausting · overwrought · laborious · protracted · endless
parchment
Treated hide for manuscripts
Torah · manuscript · calligraphy · scribe · Hebrew · illumination · chanting · reading · unrolling · handwritten
whole
Full and undivided
- everythingThe complete set
- rigmaroleTedious, overcomplicated procedure
- shebangEverything, in casual speech
spiel · saga · production · ordeal · affair · business · story · deal · works · schmear
long-winded
Excessively wordy, tediously so
- verboseMore words than necessary
- ramblingLong-winded and unfocused
- drawn-outExtended beyond normal duration
interminable · elaborate · complicated · convoluted · exhausting · overwrought · laborious · protracted · endless · detailed
- Yiddishchutzpah, kvetch, mensch, schlep, tchotchke
- Judaicamenorah, Torah scroll, Talmud, Torah study, mezuzah
- Hebrew manuscriptsDead Sea Scrolls, Torah scroll, sofer, vocalization, colophon
- Hebrew textsTorah scroll, Torah scrolls, Tanakh, Dead Sea Scrolls, Hebrew Bible
- Jewish holidaysPassover, Hanukkah, Pesach, Purim, Rosh Hashanah
- Jewish ScriptureTorah, Hebrew Bible, Tanakh, Pentateuch, Genesis