kit and caboodle

alternative kit and kaboodle · alternative whole kit and caboodle

1. Everything entirely, the whole lot.First known use 1870s

   Aye, you could sell your kit and caboodle, and really see New Orleans!

   1951, Holling Clancy Holling, Minn of the Mississippi, published 1979, page 65

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   “[…]There′ll be a kit and caboodle of our people waiting to set out."

   1930, Kenneth Roberts, Arundel, published 1995, page 153

   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.

   1988, Susan DeMarco, Jim Hightower, A Populist Prescription for Prosperity: Mother Jones, page 56

   Synonyms: all the marbles, bag and baggage, everytang, everything but the galley stove, everything but the kitchen sink, everything under the sun, full monty, hook

alternative kit and kaboodle · alternative whole kit and caboodle

1. USnot comparableAll together; as one.

   1954, Gordon Allport, cited in 2005, Steven J. Bartlett, The Pathology Of Man: A Study Of Human Evil, page 243, If I can put the Catholics into another category and reject them kit and caboodle, my life is further simplified.

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   Lincoln moved its corporate headquarters, kit and caboodle, from Fort Wayne, Indiana, to Philadelphia in 1998.

   2000 October, Working Mother, page 132

   After burying Hiram she packed them up kit and caboodle and moved them to Tuskegee, the nearest big city, so she could find work.

   2009, Scharlie R. Martin, Mayhem and Mischief Most Foul, page 161