the whole bang shoot

alternative the whole bang lot · alternative the bang shoot

1. uncountableThe whole lot, everything involved, every one, the entire process.

   Anyway," he added, with the touch of the true optimist, "it's lucky I watched her, or she'd have carried off the whole bang shoot in less than thirty minutes."

   1921, Harry Mortimer Batten, Many Trails, page 163

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   “My good fellow,” grumbled Dr. Brown, he turned at the top of the bungalow steps to deliver this ultimatum, “he hates the whole bang lot of us." ... page 234 ... “I noticed that he hated you.” Brown admitted, “but that is nothing new. He hates, as I have remarked before, the whole bang shoot of us.”

   1913, Margaret Peterson, The Lure Of The Little Drum, page 92

   "...he said something about Hughes not caring a rush for any man's life, least of all his own! Said Hughes was sublimely indifferent to the whole bang shoot. I am beginning to understand what he meant."

   1942, John Vernon Hewes, The High Courts of Heaven: A Story of the R.A.F., page 132

   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