這道菜
核心畫面本身：盤子上那一捲淋了辣醬、烤過的墨西哥菜。
noun · B1
A Mexican dish: a soft flat piece of corn bread called a tortilla is rolled around a filling of meat, beans or cheese, then covered with a spicy sauce and baked.
墨西哥辣醬捲餅
核心畫面
You can think of enchilada as one plate in front of you: a rolled around its filling, lying under a thick layer of red sauce, still whole and hot from the oven. It is one object, generous and complete, and you can see at a glance both how big it is and that nobody has taken a piece of it. Those two things you can see — its size and its wholeness — are what American speakers borrowed when they started using the word for something that is not food at all.
enchilada 可以想成眼前的一個盤子：一張玉米薄餅把餡捲起來，躺在一層厚厚的紅醬底下，剛從烤箱出來，還是完整的…更多收起
enchilada 可以想成眼前的一個盤子：一張玉米薄餅把餡捲起來，躺在一層厚厚的紅醬底下，剛從烤箱出來，還是完整的一整捲。它是一個很有份量、也很完整的東西。你一眼就看得出兩件事：它有多大，還有它一口都還沒被動過。美式口語後來借走的，正好就是這兩件看得見的事——大，還有完整。From the word’s history
The name comes from Spanish enchilada, the past participle of enchilar, to add chilli. So the word does not name the bread or the filling; it names what is poured over the top.
這個名字來自西班牙文 enchilada，是動詞 enchilar（加辣椒）的過去分詞。所以這個字說的不是餅，也不是餡，而是淋在上面的那層辣醬。
Wiktionary entry for enchilada (kaikki extract 3f6f69a190036ae4): 「From Spanish enchilada, past participle of enchilar ('to add chili pepper to').」
Two branches
把那一整捲拿來當比喻
這兩個說法都不再講食物，而是借走盤子上看得見的特徵。整捲沒被動過，就變成「全部」；一桌裡最大的那捲，就變成「最重要的那個」。兩個都是美式口語，都固定跟著 the。
noun · C1
Used in the whole enchilada to mean all of something — every part of it, with nothing left out and nothing held back.
全部；整套