kit and caboodle

Example Sentences

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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

There was dead silence until—boom!—a huge thunderbolt clattered overhead and the whole kit and caboodle made a beeline out of there.

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney