the full monty
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The Full Monty
- "Naked Nation: The Full Monty, Working-Class Masculinity, and the British Image." Men and Masculinities 6, no. 2: 119-35.
Examples
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The Full Monty.
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After auditioning with various theatre companies back home in Kentucky, I found myself cast at CenterStage performing in the musicals The Full Monty and RENT.
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The Full Monty and RENT were highly successful.
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A famous Scottish actor known from such movies as Trainspotting and The Full Monty.
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The Full Monty (1997) makes similar erasures of deindustrialized men.
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He compares the service on offer at the Liverpool branch with that received by the unemployed steelworkers in the film The Full Monty.
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As for Billy Elliot, for the former steelworkers of The Full Monty, working-class privacy is no longer an option, and collectivism is cast as symptomatic of their problems, a failed social model.
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Friedman, Lester, ed. 2006. Fires Were Started: British Cinema and Thatcherism. New York: Wallflower. The Full Monty. 1997. Film. Directed by Peter Cattaneo. Redwave Films.
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The Full Monty is a film that humorously portrays the struggles of unemployed steelworkers attempting to create a striptease act.
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In the musical adaptation of The Full Monty, characters navigate the challenges of unemployment while pursuing their dreams.
Surface Forms
Morphology
the + full + monty
This is a culture-specific, lexicalized British idiom (originally a film title) meaning 'the whole thing' or 'everything.' Knowing 'the' and 'full' does not allow a B1 learner to predict that sense because 'monty' is a proper/name element and the phrase's meaning is idiomatic rather than compositionally derived.
Etymology
The full monty is the title of a 1997 film about unemployed men who form a strip act, and the title refers to them doing the complete strip, so the movie name links to the idea of a 'full' or total showing.