kit and caboodle
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If you get the whole kit and caboodle, you’re looking at spending $3,000–$4,000.
From The Verge • Jul. 29, 2022
“I’m worried about the whole kit and caboodle and how confusing it might be,” said UW Medicine’s Dr. John Lynch, director of infection control at Harborview Medical Center.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 25, 2020
For an intriguing interval each year, the American Shakespeare Center — a delightful company of well-drilled classicists — turns over the whole kit and caboodle to the actors.
From Washington Post • Apr. 25, 2019
Not always in so many words — and that wasn't the whole kit and caboodle of advice.
From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2018
They ought to take the whole kit and caboodle of these cement parking lots and heave them into the sea, I thought.
From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride
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