Talk:Works

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D1 link correction[edit]

It doesn't appear that this link for D1 should link to D1 (Sony). Well, what should it link to?? Georgia guy 00:28, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Meaning of the idiom "the works"[edit]

Re: "request for all the toppings and condiments available", I have long believed that the idiom actually arose from the clockwork innards (i.e., "works") of a machine. (C.f. "to throw a wrench/spanner in the works".) Thus, in the context of X (clock, engine, hamburger, etc.) "the works" idiomatically means "everything necessary to make X an X". I'm backed up in this by Answers.com (totally unreliable, I know), which puts the origin in the 1800s. I guess my point is that restricting the idiom here to toppings and condiments isn't really correct. More generally, is there a good place on Wikipedia to explain the origin and meaning of idioms? We've got the list of idioms in the English language, I know, but that seems insufficient. Regards, Ryan McDaniel 16:16, 31 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]