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the whole kit and caboodle

Parf of speech: Phrase, OED Year: 1888, OED Evaluation: colloq.

A number of things or persons viewed as a whole; a set, lot, collection.

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Speaker: 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- Interviewer: Okay. Speaker: And dad and mother r-- raised a lot of chickens. Everything from layers to meat birds that went to turkey fair day, to went to orders at the end of the year for Christmas, New-Years, what-have-you.
A number of things or persons viewed as a whole; a set, lot, collection.