![]() If you unsubscribe, please know that you will be disliked. You are currently subscribed to: REMA’s “Making Heads or Tails of Idioms” blog! To unsubscribe, follow the instructions. REFERRALS: Do you LOVE Rema’s Idiom Blog and look forward to it all the time? If so, refer your friends! In the 90’s, there was an extremely popular product: the “Caboodle”… it was a magical place for teenage girls to store the makeup they weren’t allowed to wear. The phrase also appears in Grose’s Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue in 1785, a dictionary of slang words, pretty much the precursor to Urban Dictionary.Ĭommercially, Purina’s “Kit and Kaboodle” pet food means your precious little cat is getting “the works”. In the US, boodle came to mean money attained illegally / through corrupt means. The phrase “the whole boodle” can also be used to describe the same thing. Some believe it’s from the Dutch boedel, meaning one’s inheritance or estate. Caboodle was also used at times as a legal term for “estate”. Some say it comes from “boodle” which was known to describe a collection of items or people. The word kit in the phrase the whole kit and caboodle is a reference to a soldiers kit, which is the collection of supplies and personal items that a soldier carries with him. Kaboodle (or Caboodle) has a few more variations of origin. The whole kit and caboodle means the entire amount of things or the entire group of people being discussed. ![]() Soldiers in the 1700’s also carried a bag with everything they needed called a Kitbag. Origin: “Kit and Kaboodle” has origins in the 18th century, England. Kit, which comes from the word “kith” meaning “estate.” So the “Whole Kith” would mean everything one owns. What does it mean? The whole shebang, the works, the full story. What was said? “So… I mean the whole kit and kaboodle on the job front is…”ĭid someone really say that? Yes, in an email to me about what’s really going on with a friend’s job. A kit is a collection of items, such as a tool kit or a sewing kit.
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