whole smash

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Noun

whole smash (uncountable)

  1. (with "the") Everything; the whole nine yards. Used in the Apollo 13 mission when Mission Control ordered the shutdown of the fuel cells on the command module. Astronaut Fred Haise asked for clarification by saying "Do you want me to go through that whole smash for fuel cell shutdown? Is that correct?"[1]