enchilada

noun
🔊/ˌentʃɪˈlɑːdə/
🔊/ˌentʃɪˈlɑːdə/
(from Spanish)Idioms
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  1. a Mexican dish consisting of a tortilla filled with meat and covered with a spicy sauce(墨西哥)辣肉馅玉米卷Topics Foodc2
    Word OriginLatin American Spanish, feminine past participle of enchilar ‘season with chilli’.
Idioms
the big enchilada
  1. (North American English, informal, humorous) the most important person or thing首要人物(或事物)
the whole enchilada
  1. (informal) the whole thing; everything整个;全部;所有