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View synonyms for shoot the works
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Expend all one's efforts or capital, as in He's broke after shooting the works on that new office building . [ Colloquial ; first half of 1900s] Also see the works .Advertisement
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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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