it's a whole thing

A phrase used to convey a situation's complexity in short-hand.

"Dontae is dating a girl in finance. It's a whole thing."

by you should've asked us first January 2, 2012

Whole thing

An event or situation that is more complicated than it should be.

When someone plans a dinner for 12 people and doesn’t make a reservation and then you show up at the restaurant and can’t be seated together, you are caught up in a whole thing.

by Kbk$ January 15, 2021

that whole Yale thing

The state of being a closet homosexual who does a lot of cocaine, as described by yuppie serial killer Patrick Bateman in American Psycho.

Patrick Bateman: He was into that whole Yale thing.
Donald Kimball: Yale thing?
Patrick Bateman: Yeah, Yale thing.
Donald Kimball: What "whole Yale thing"?
Patrick Bateman: Well, for one thing, I think he was probably a closet homosexual who did a lot of cocaine. That whole Yale thing.

by Siesmic Dan August 5, 2011

You say Bukkake and I say Kabuki, let’s call the whole thing off

Japanese phrase used to express an extreme difference in taste leading to a relationship breakdown.

One evening it all came to a head... I wanted to go to the theatre and he wanted to stay at home and watch humiliation porn so I said,

You say Bukkake and I say Kabuki, let’s call the whole thing off.

by TONY of SXW2 May 18, 2024

This whole thing

Is just trying to make me "get over" aversions I do not have. You try to control me and then tell people I have a fear of control and that you are doing this because of that. You try to get me to change by more explicitly making my life the Truman show-esque hell I had described and then accusing me of having an aversions to change.

Hym "This whole thing is a farce and a deliberate one designed to mirror the things I said about your religion. And it isn't any of those things. It's the thing I said it was. Still getting harassed. Still miserable at work. My symptoms have improved as I found a new way of milking the fluid buildup in my skull. And all so you can make an exercise of making me give up on getting what I want out of life and instead take what Jordan Peterson and friends want me to have. Which is LESS THAN WHAT THEY HAVE. Fuck you. My life can change (for the better) without me changing myself FIRST, Jordan."

by Hym Iam December 4, 2025