whole rest

American  

noun

Music.

1. a rest equivalent in duration to a whole note.

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Etymology

Origin of whole rest

First recorded in 1885–90

Example Sentences

She volunteered to stay open late and beckon the crowd for a late-night snack, bringing in more revenue in a few hours than they had earned the whole rest of the day.

From Los Angeles Times

"When the clips go out, it's weird because you’re cutting a lot of the context of the whole rest of the show out, and what's been established before and after."

From BBC

While making lunch for her child, she relates: “The problem wasn’t the lunch, it was what came after, the whole rest of my life.”

From Los Angeles Times

Believe it or not, I believe in the whole rest of her life she has coming outside of these two dudes.

From Los Angeles Times

“But the whole rest of the country, in whose interests the people at the front are fighting, is living an absolutely relaxed life and many people think that nothing is happening at all.”

From New York Times