whole shebang
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Fixed expression from shebang,[1][2][3] first attested in the United States from the early 1860s, from which time it has increasingly dominated uses of "shebang" itself.
Pronunciation[edit]
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Noun[edit]
whole shebang (plural whole shebangs)
- (idiomatic, with "the") Everything; the entire thing.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:everything
- The festival had balloons, flowers, fireworks, performers, and the whole shebang.
- 1863, James Bryan, A Short Account of the "Mary Ann" Hospital, Grand Gulf, Miss.[1]:
- On the third the whole "chebang" was removed [...]
- 1924, Harold Hart Crane, letter:[1][2]
- I am growing more and more sick of factions, gossip, jealousies, recriminations, excoriations and the whole literary shee-bang.
- 2002, Treasure Planet, directed by Ron Clements and John Musker
- Doctor, I'd love to chat. Tea, cake, the whole shebang. But I've got a ship to launch and you've got your outfit to buff up.
- 2004, Leo Furey, The Long Run, page 331:
- “Food here's pretty good. They don't serve bog juice. Real tea and real coffee. Ice cream, pop, chips. The whole shebang. Every day's a wingding, brother.”
- 2011, Dave Thompson, 1000 Songs that Rock Your World, page 209:
- Of course, they would win the whole shebang in 1974, when “Waterloo” [won] (sung in English by Swedes about a Frenchman in Belgium— how much more international can one song get?), but the bitter taste of past failures is not something one forgets...
- 2011, Diane Phillips, Slow Cooker: The Best Cookbook Ever with More Than 400 Easy-to-Make Recipes, page 305:
- The whole shebang cooks in the slow cooker, which will keep it warm until you are ready to serve it.
Translations[edit]
the entire thing
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References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 “whole shebang, the”, Wordorigins.org, Dave Wilton, Tuesday, February 20, 2007.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
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