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But China, he acknowledges, is "the big enchilada, the big test."

"It's much easier to argue over a big enchilada than an individual taco," the adviser said.

However, the participant added, Clinton was the "big enchilada," so "all eyes turned to her to hear what she thinks."

The answer, the whole big enchilada, is a lot more complex than that.

In either case, we should go for the big enchilada.

The governor is wandering in a no man's land between a whole enchilada and the big enchilada.

The big enchilada is not a situation but a person.

This is the big enchilada for most visitors and takes you to the top of El Yunque (3496ft, 1049m) in 1 hours or longer.

Listen, enough about me; let's talk about the big enchilada: the three guys who got capped.

But the big enchilada slipped off the platter when she disappeared.