| 单词 | the whole kit and boiling |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe whole kit and boiling (boodle, caboodle, cargo) 3. colloquial. A number of things or persons viewed as a whole; a set, lot, collection; esp. in the whole kit. Also, the whole kit and boiling (boodle, caboodle, cargo). (Cf. caboodle n.) U.S. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > [noun] > a kind, sort, or class > a number of things classed together class1583 coveya1592 parcel1607 batch1616 sisterhood1616 clan1667 band1690 set1690 lot1710 group1718 brotherhood1728 kit1785 package1947 the world > relative properties > wholeness > the whole or all > [noun] > the whole quantity, number, or amount > the whole lot every whita1450 every stitch?a1500 the devil and all1543 prow and poop1561 Christ-cross-row1579 every snip1598 thread and thrum1600 boodle1625 hair and hoof1705 rag-tag (also rag, tag) and bob-tail1725 tutti quanti1772 lot1791 lock, stock, and barrel1824 stock and fluke1825 the whole boiling1837 box and dice1839 the whole caboodlea1848 sub-cheese1859 the whole kit and boiling (boodle, caboodle, cargo)1859 the whole jingbang1866 the whole hypothec1871 the whole ball of wax1882 the whole (entire) shoot1884 (at) every whip-stitch1888 work1899 issue1919 guntz1958 full monty1979 1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Kit,..is also used to express the whole of different commodities; as, Here, take the whole kit; i.e. take all. 1788 R. Galloway Poems 170 'Twas whiskey made them a' sae crouse,..But now I wad na gi'e ae louse For a' the kit. 1820 P. B. Shelley Œdipus Tyrannus i. 12 I'll sell you in a lump The whole kit of them. a1852 F. M. Whitcher Widow Bedott Papers (1856) xxiii. 257 The hull kit and cargo on 'em had conspired together. 1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) 32 Biling, a vulgar pronunciation of boiling. The phrase the whole (or more commonly hull) kit and bilin, means the whole lot, applied to persons and things. a1861 T. Winthrop John Brent (1883) xxviii. 237 I motioned we shove the hul kit an boodle of the gamblers ashore on logs. 'Twas kerried. 1861 C. Dickens Great Expectations III. i. 12 A better gentleman than the whole kit on you put together. 1869 Trip to Rocky Mtns. At one time there was good reason to fear that the whole kit and biling, as our men invariably called our traps, would be swept away. 1888 Boston Globe 5 Feb. 1/3 If any ‘railroad lobbyist’ cast reflections on his character he would wipe out the whole kit and caboodle of them. 1895 S. Crane Red Badge of Courage (1911) i. 14 Of course it might happen that the hull kit-and-boodle might start and run, if some big fighting came first-off. 1908 Dial. Notes 3 327 (East Alabama) Kit an(d) bilin, the crowd. Usually in the expression ‘the whole kit and bilin’. Cf. kit and cargo of the middle west. 1909 R. Parrish My Lady of South ix. 113 Wal, I'm yere now, an' I reckon ther whole kit an' caboodle will know 'bout it afore I leave. 1920 S. Lewis Main St. 50 The whole kit and bilin' of 'em are nothing in God's world but socialism in disguise. 1946 Newsweek 16 Sept. 32/2 It gave the farm and the whole kit and boodle to Stanley. 1969 Listener 22 May 707/3 The whole kit and caboodle of us were then investigated by the FBI to see how many subversives there were among us. < as lemmas |
| 随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。