| 词汇 | whole kit and caboodle |
| 词源 | whole kit and caboodle. The caboodle in this American ex- pression meaning “the whole lot,” is the same as the word boo- dle, for “a pile of money,” deriving from the Dutch boedal, “property.” The whole kit, of course, means entire outfit. The phrase doesn’t read “the whole kit and boodle” because Ameri- cans like alliteration in speech and added a “k” sound before boodle in the phrase. |
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