Radios, printers, cables - the whole ball of wax in one or two aluminum cases.
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"If Trump's at 55 percent, we could lose the whole ball of wax," he said.
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Art, by contrast, is the whole ball of wax — a system, coherent, chopped out from chaos and held.
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"The background circumstances can be such that there is no justification for the whole ball of wax," he said.
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"Credit risk, including the floor, is the whole ball of wax, so if you delay that, you delay the whole thing," a banking industry official said.
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But the bottom line is, you do have to look at military and non-military and entitlements, the whole ball of wax, and if you cut one penny out of the dollar, it would balance.
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Some Panamanian zoologists said that it appeared to be a fetus of some kind. In addition to naturalistic explanations, Billy Booth of About.com reported that "there has been speculation that it is alien, and thereby the connection to UFOs, undersea bases, the whole ball of wax".
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But it was a fair question. I didn't like, though, > the way that, forever then in these seven years, that interview has kind of > been stamped on my forehead as, 'she's an idiot.' I just think, in the > context of the whole ball of wax that day—or two days—of an interview and > editing, it wasn't real fun.
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A non-joking equivalent would be "to send up a trial balloon." The phrase was associated with the advertising agencies then located on Madison Avenue in New York, and with the "men in the grey flannel suits." Comedians, when mocking corporate culture, were certain to use it, along with expressions such as "the whole ball of wax" and the use of invented words ending in "-wise" (e.g. "We've had a good year, revenuewise").
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The phrase is related to the expression the whole six yards, used around the same time in Kentucky and South Carolina. Both phrases are variations on the whole ball of wax, first recorded in the 1880s. They are part of a family of expressions in which an odd-sounding item, such as enchilada, shooting match, shebang or hog, is substituted for ball of wax. The choice of the number nine may be related to the expression "To the nines" (to perfection).
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During her time at Adams College, as revealed in the episode "The Whole Ball of Wax," Sabrina is finally able to meet her mother. However, it is revealed that the Witches' Council had set a decree that if the two were ever to meet face to face, her mother would turn into a ball of wax. While the decree was never repealed, Sabrina accidentally frees her mother by crying into the ball of wax. However, they could not ever see each other face to face again, the one exception being the series finale, in which Hilda volunteered Zelda to be turned into wax until the wedding ended.
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