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homoe · 10-01-2017, 03:10 PM

"The whole kit and caboodle"..........

A collection of things.

Sidebar: This expression is a redundancy, for kit has meant "a collection or group" since the mid-1700s though this meaning survives only in the full idiom today, and caboodle has been used with the same meaning since the 1840s. In fact caboodle is thought to be a corruption of the phrase kit and boodle, another redundant phrase, since boodle also meant "a collection."

Regardless I rather enjoy this idiom!

10-01-2017, 03:10 PM	#976
homoe Practically Lives Here How Do You Identify?: Butch Relationship Status: ..... Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: 30 minute ferry ride from Seattle Posts: 38,565 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 20,811 Thanked 33,549 Times in 14,914 Posts Rep Power: 21474889	"The whole kit and caboodle".......... A collection of things. Sidebar: This expression is a redundancy, for kit has meant "a collection or group" since the mid-1700s though this meaning survives only in the full idiom today, and caboodle has been used with the same meaning since the 1840s. In fact caboodle is thought to be a corruption of the phrase kit and boodle, another redundant phrase, since boodle also meant "a collection." Regardless I rather enjoy this idiom!