full monty

American  

[mon-tee] / ˈmɒn ti /

noun

Chiefly British Slang.

1. the, the whole thing; everything that is wanted or needed.

   At the press briefing, the reporters got the full monty.

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full monty British  

/ ˈmɒntɪ /

noun

1. informal something in its entirety

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Etymology

Origin of full monty

1985–90; origin uncertain; perhaps from Montague Burton, British tailors, with reference to the purchase of a full (3-piece) suit as being “the full Monty”

Example Sentences

As a story of unlikely people coming together in an unlikely project, it recalls such films as “The Commitments,” “The Full Monty” and “Calendar Girls,” though it might also be seen as a middle-aged version of “We Are Lady Parts,” minus the South Asian specificity.

From Los Angeles Times

It ended in 2018 and since then Carlyle has worked almost exclusively in the UK in shows such as the TV version of The Full Monty and last year's Toxic Town, which was written by Jack Thorne, the man behind Netflix smash hit Adolescence as well as The Hack.

From BBC

He told The Saturday Show on BBC Radio Scotland that he believes he was a victim of newspapers listening into his phone messages in the 1990s, when he was at the height of his Trainspotting and The Full Monty fame.

From BBC

"I'm blessed that there was a couple of things that I did back then in the 90s - one of them was Trainspotting and the other one's the Full Monty," he says.

From BBC

The Full Monty's Robert Carlyle plays Sam Hagen, a then-Corby Borough Councillor and Downton Abbey's Brendan Coyle, who is from Corby originally, stars as Roy Thomas, a fictional amalgams of several people from the authority.

From BBC