Idiom meaning, usage examples, facts
WHOLE KIT AND CABOODLE, THEthe entire amount; the whole lot
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1. Some strangers came to our yard sale yesterday and bought everything we had. They bought the whole kit and caboodle.
2. When the landlord evicted the man, he cleared out all the man’s possessions and put them out on the sidewalk, including the man’s trash from his wastebaskets! He put out the whole kit and caboodle. Synonym: lock, stock, and barrel. The expression is often used to describe items which might not normally be included or which one might expect to be excluded, such as the trash from the wastebaskets (opt.2). Dating from the late 1800s, the whole kit and caboodle is actually the combination of words with a similar meaning. Both kit and caboodle mean a collection, and the combination into a single phrase is a way of adding emphasis. |
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