full monty

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#1·12h ago

(British, colloquial) Nudity.

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(British, colloquial) Nude.

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#3·12h ago

(British, colloquial, countable) Everything; the whole package.

I thought he was only going to buy the basic kit, but he bought the full monty.

Origin: . First appeared in print in 1980s, but probably existed before that. The most common theory for its origin is that a purchase (especially that of a full three-piece suit) from Montague Maurice Burton (1885–1952), founder of Burton Menswear, was known as a "full Monty". According to the OED, this etymology is "perhaps the most plausible". The nudity definition comes via the movie The Full Monty, in which it is used as a euphemism for removing all one's clothes when stripping. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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