whole kit and caboodle, the

the whole kit and caboodle

All the parts of a group of things. I had a collection I'd been putting together for nearly 25 years, and burglars stole the whole kit and caboodle. John has some awesome camping gear, and he let us borrow the whole kit and caboodle for the weekend.

whole kit and caboodle, the

Everything, every part, as in He packed up all his gear, the whole kit and caboodle, and walked out. This expression is a redundancy, for kit has meant "a collection or group" since the mid-1700s (though this meaning survives only in the full idiom today), and caboodle has been used with the same meaning since the 1840s. In fact caboodle is thought to be a corruption of the phrase kit and boodle, another redundant phrase, since boodle also meant "a collection."

词组	whole kit and caboodle, the
释义	whole kit and caboodle, the the whole kit and caboodle All the parts of a group of things. I had a collection I'd been putting together for nearly 25 years, and burglars stole the whole kit and caboodle. John has some awesome camping gear, and he let us borrow the whole kit and caboodle for the weekend. See also: and, caboodle, kit, whole Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. whole kit and caboodle, the Everything, every part, as in He packed up all his gear, the whole kit and caboodle, and walked out. This expression is a redundancy, for kit has meant "a collection or group" since the mid-1700s (though this meaning survives only in the full idiom today), and caboodle has been used with the same meaning since the 1840s. In fact caboodle is thought to be a corruption of the phrase kit and boodle, another redundant phrase, since boodle also meant "a collection." See also: and, kit, whole The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. See also: kaboodle the whole caboodle the whole kit and caboodle whole kit and caboodle caboodle kit and caboodle the kit and caboodle kit and caboodle, (the whole) steal out of some place steal a look (at someone or something)
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