![]() ( The Lewiston Sun Journal)īut then, Supervisor Lynn Compton, whose South County district neighbors Hill’s, played a game of selfish hardball on how the county’s public parks budget should be divided and got Debbie Arnold and John Peschong to go along with a money grab that allocated the whole $1.2 million kit and kaboodle to projects in Nipomo. ( The Albuquerque Journal)Īlmost the whole kit and caboodle was packed up and transported to Fryeburg. ![]() Pour enough water gently into the pot so the whole kit and caboodle is sitting in a puddle and leave it there for 20 minutes. The Oxford English Dictionary lists the proper spelling as kit and caboodle, though it is occasionally seen spelled as kit and kaboodle An older rendering of the phrase is the whole kit and boodle. whole kit and caboodle, the whole kit and caboodle, the Everything, every part, as in He packed up all his gear, the whole kit and caboodle, and walked out. Boodle appears in the United States in the 1830s to mean a crowd of people, later evolving to mean a large amount of ill-gotten money. ![]() ![]() The word caboodle in the phrase the whole kit and caboodle is an alliteration of the word boodle. The word kit in the phrase the whole kit and caboodle is a reference to a soldier’s kit, which is the collection of supplies and personal items that a soldier carries with him. The whole kit and caboodle means the entire amount of things or the entire group of people being discussed. standard caboodle is generous: a six-speaker stereo, cruise, power locks, fog lights, 16-inche alloy wheels, John Phillips often used in the phrase the whole kit and caboodle Oh, it was agony, deciding which of those necessities to part with. This is the meaning of kit and caboodle: kit and caboodle (English) Alternative forms kit and kaboodle, whole kit and caboodle Origin & history From kit(from Middle Dutch kitte('wooden vessel made of hooped staves')) + boodle(from Dutch boedel('property, moveable estate')). ![]()
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