kit and caboodle
Noun
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Noun
kit and caboodle
- (US, Canada, Australia, idiomatic) Everything entirely, the whole lot.
- 1930, Kenneth Roberts, Arundel, 1995, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=h8IYDtLB0ywC&pg=PA153&dq=-whole+%22kit+and+caboodle%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=pMOWT5n4O4GhmQWJu6XiDg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=-whole%20%22kit%20and%20caboodle%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 153],
- “ […] There′ll be a kit and caboodle of our people waiting to set out."
- 1951, Holling Clancy Holling, Minn of the Mississippi, 1979, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=xg8fSbRUxqwC&pg=PA65&dq=-whole+%22kit+and+caboodle%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=pMOWT5n4O4GhmQWJu6XiDg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=-whole%20%22kit%20and%20caboodle%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 65],
- Aye, you could sell your kit and caboodle, and really see New Orleans!
- 1988, Susan DeMarco, Jim Hightower, A Populist Prescription for Prosperity, Mother Jones, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=MucDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT48&dq=-whole+%22kit+and+caboodle%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=HMqWT92fCIeYmQWv2_DgDg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=-whole%20%22kit%20and%20caboodle%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 56],
- To have an economy that is sound and that works for all the people, Reagan′s entire “trickle-down” kit and caboodle must be tossed out behind him and replaced with an aggressive program of growth that “percolates up” from the grass roots.
- 1930, Kenneth Roberts, Arundel, 1995, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=h8IYDtLB0ywC&pg=PA153&dq=-whole+%22kit+and+caboodle%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=pMOWT5n4O4GhmQWJu6XiDg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=-whole%20%22kit%20and%20caboodle%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 153],
kit and caboodle (not comparable)
- (US) All together; as one.
- 1954, Gordon Allport, cited in 2005, Steven J. Bartlett, The Pathology Of Man: A Study Of Human Evil, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=U5KQ0Yi76GMC&pg=PA243&dq=-whole+%22kit+and+caboodle%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=pMOWT5n4O4GhmQWJu6XiDg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=-whole%20%22kit%20and%20caboodle%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 243],
- If I can put the Catholics into another category and reject them kit and caboodle, my life is further simplified.
- 2000 October, Working Mother, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=vQc11pd_aFoC&pg=PA132&dq=-whole+%22kit+and+caboodle%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=HMqWT92fCIeYmQWv2_DgDg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=-whole%20%22kit%20and%20caboodle%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 132],
- Lincoln moved its corporate headquarters, kit and caboodle, from Fort Wayne, Indiana, to Philadelphia in 1998.
- 2009, Scharlie R. Martin, Mayhem and Mischief Most Foul, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=Vje9FGc83cMC&pg=PA161&dq=-whole+%22kit+and+caboodle%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=HMqWT92fCIeYmQWv2_DgDg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=-whole%20%22kit%20and%20caboodle%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 161],
- After burying Hiram she packed them up kit and caboodle and moved them to Tuskegee, the nearest big city, so she could find work.
- 1954, Gordon Allport, cited in 2005, Steven J. Bartlett, The Pathology Of Man: A Study Of Human Evil, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=U5KQ0Yi76GMC&pg=PA243&dq=-whole+%22kit+and+caboodle%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=pMOWT5n4O4GhmQWJu6XiDg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=-whole%20%22kit%20and%20caboodle%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 243],
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