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Kit and caboodle

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1848, OED Evaluation: Slan. Originally U.S.

(caboodle only) the whole caboodle: the whole lot (of persons or things).

ExampleMeaning
Then you would stop, you'd undo the corners, the- the- the clamps and then you'd roll your whole frame that- the wood- the quilt- the whole kit-and-caboodle in this way, so that you got to where you could actually reach and then you'd put it all back together again, sit down and then you quilt a little bit further.
the whole lot
ExampleMeaning
And my dad did what you call custom hatching of eggs for all kinds of other farmers because they didn't want to be bothered with the time or didn't have the building and the facilities with a brooder stove and the whole kit-and-caboodle, so-
the whole lot