kit and caboodle
5
7.7
- idiom
- /kɪt ənd kəˈbuːdəl/
- Informal
:
todo el kit y caboodle
- He decided to sell the house along with the whole kit and caboodle inside it.
- the whole kit and caboodle
This might be their, you know, kit and caboodle.
- This might be their, you know, kit and caboodle.
Examples
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The whole kit and caboodle.
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Too tempting for another firm to walk away with the whole kit and caboodle.
Fiction book (1997) -
If you don't want to make a lunch box, you could buy the whole kit and caboodle.
Blog text (2) -
I had to piece together the puzzle with bits of information from a variety of websites to get the whole kit and caboodle to work.
Blog text (33) -
She'd sold Marlcrest—the whole kit and caboodle—to a developer who planned to bulldoze the house, clear the land, and build a subdivision there.
Fiction book (1996) -
You can have the car, the furniture, and the whole kit and caboodle for a great price.
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When she moved, she packed up the whole kit and caboodle into boxes.
Synonyms
55
3.8
Everything extra you can have, like extra burger toppings or a full spa service
8
8.5
All the things or people together as a group
7
8.0
Everything that is part of something
4
7.0
Everything included in a deal or plan
4
6.7
All the things and people connected with something
3
5.2
All the things you need for an activity, like tools and supplies
3
3.6
All the extra services and options included with a product or service
2
3.9
Everything included, for example all parts or options
1
7.7
All the things or people involved
1
9.9
A complete set of related things included together
All the things in a group or set
All the things and people together
Surface Forms
Morphology
Both 'kit' and 'caboodle' independently denote a set or complete collection, so the coordinated phrase 'kit and caboodle' transparently signals 'the whole lot' for someone who knows those words. This kind of paired-synonym construction to indicate entirety is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner familiar with the constituents can reasonably infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
The phrase kit and caboodle may come from old words for a person's tools and the whole bundle of their things. Imagine a soldier carrying his kit, his gear, and his full caboodle, the whole bundle, so the phrase came to mean 'everything'.