kit and caboodle
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[edit] Etymology
From Middle Dutch kitte (“a wooden vessel made of hooped staves”) and boodle, which may come from Dutch property, estate.
[edit] Noun
kit and caboodle (uncountable)
- (US, Canada, Australian, idiomatic) Everything entirely, the whole lot.
- When the gathering was over, they packed all the remnants, kit and caboodle, into the truck and drove off.
[edit] References
- “kit” in the Online Etymology Dictionary, Douglas Harper, 2001
