kit and caboodle

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kit and caboodle - everything available; usually preceded by `the'; "we saw the whole shebang"; "a hotdog with the works"; "we took on the whole caboodle"; "for $10 you get the full treatment"

full treatment, kit and boodle, whole caboodle, whole kit, whole kit and boodle, whole kit and caboodle, whole shebang, whole works, works

entireness, entirety, integrality, totality - the state of being total and complete; "he read the article in its entirety"; "appalled by the totality of the destruction"

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And no more schnapps, mind, until we're clear of the whole kit and caboodle."

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Following up on a high number of turtle deaths in 2012-13 that conservationists were attributing to a "whole kit and caboodle of reasons," including runoff from agriculture, industrial toxins, and climate change, the team conducted physical exams and tested the turtles' blood over time, looking for signs of contaminants and illness.

Green Sea Turtles Still Struggling Years Later

Questions are now flying about the procurement process and cost of the entire kit and caboodle of the administration of the national examinations.

Corridors of Power

The Summit Refuge is dual trekking pole supported so the whole kit and caboodle weighs less than two pounds!

Backcountry or bust!

Steve |Morgan Hayward cared so much for once mighty Wolves that he flogged the whole kit and caboodle to Morgan for PS10.

Beautiful game has turned ugly

And yet the whole kit and caboodle only raised the price of my car by just over PS2000.

Power to shift; MAGGIE BARRY finds Ford's 1.0-litre engine mated to an automatic gearbox makes the Fiesta a peppy performer

This Kinder Valley Kai Compact Cot in pink caught our eye - also available in blue, it's down from PS59 to PS49, so now's the time to stock up on all the kit and caboodle. Until September 14.

PRODUCT OF THE WEEK

Paz has converted a small storage room in his Discovery Gardens unit into a workshop, where he keeps every kit and caboodle, bends things around using a heat gun and paints them over.