What's a kaboodle?
 

My dad use to say "kit and kaboodle." We all knew it meant "everything." "Your mother went to a yard sale and bought everything, the whole kit and kaboodle."

Dad says it, so we all say it. But it just occurred to me that I don't even know what a kaboodle is. So I looked it up.

Can you thing of a phrase you use that makes no sense on face value?

According to Wikipedia (which is NOT to be trusted as anyone can put anything on there): Kaboodle is a spelling derivation of the English word "caboodle", meaning a group, bunch, lot, pack, or collection of things or people.

My parents used the phrase also.

Happy as a Clam, how happy is a clam and how do we know it's happy?

What is a fell swoop?

I am quite, 'san fairy Anne' about the whole thing!

IMO it means you over brought:22yikes:

My grandpa use to say I knock you hell western crooked? I took that as being bad experience and stopped what I was doing!

Similar to that, from a teacher friend in Asheville, NC, "I'll pull a knot in y'all's tail!"

Cool beans!

What does that mean?

How about shebang?
As in one can get the whole shebang.

What's the origin of the phrase 'San fairy Ann'?

A deliberate jokey corruption of the French phrase 'Ça ne fait rien' - it doesn't matter.
source. Phrase finder.

Actually where I lived in London, we used to say 'San fairy coppersticks' but where that came from I havn't a clue!

Every time when we took a trip & my Dad drove at night, my Mom told us kid's to watch for pahdidle's.. Pah-did-le's are a car drive'in down the road with one headlight. We would count how many we seen. I still look for Pahdidle's to this day.

We did that too. And when I got older and drove around with my peers we also did
"Punch buggy, Punch back."

It's true. No one ever seems to get a half a shebang.

That might be a smidge

Half a Shebang is what you have after a divorce. :cus:

Colder than a Witches Breast???

No ever gets "half the enchilada" either.

I don't know if that counts since you know what it means on face value. By the same token, the same could be true for punch buggy. But "by the same token" does count.

As a young lad of 15 my father told me, son “never go out into the rain without your rubbers” Sadly, I never took his advice [emoji53]


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Ooo Geee-Whit-a-cures what's next?

How about, "You juked, one, two..." Usually administered by my older brother.

Or did he make that up just so he could hit me.

maybe--- I can't find it.

Is this is just a local thing?

How about if you saw an empty pack wrapper of Lucky Strikes on the ground' you would step on it and say "Lucky Strike, Strikes back." and punch someone in the shoulder.

Somebody who is probably long gone invented that, no royalties.

As we all where kid's at one time. U had to play marble's with ur friends. Even the girl's played. Back then I had "BOO-COO" of them in a Big bag.

If I remeber--the agee was the most important one. I lost my marbles years ago. Which also qualifies as an expression that doesn't make sense on face value.

I think the "you juked" thing was kind of like the "made you look" thing with a penalty at the end

This is the closest I could come:

1. Urban Dictionary: juke
   
   Urban Dictionary: jukeEn cache
   
   1) To defeat an opponent by using subtlety, cleverness, or a trickery. To force an opponent between choosing between two negative options (both of which benefit you).
   
   

He also used to hold my head underwater in Lake Ontario till I damn near drowned.:cus:

I knew some people that didn't have much Scruples back in the day. Plus some weren't play'in with a Full-Deck ether....:popcorn:

My grandpa told me he would "Slap me naked and sell my clothes", after I put a dead water moccasin just around a bend in his footpath to the well.

I googled that and found the Hickapedia site. It's there. These are their top 10 sayings:

Top 10 Redneck Sayings
Ain’t no point in beatin’ a dead horse…’course, can’t hurt none either.

Ask her what time it is & she’ll tell you how to build a clock
[my favorite]

Busy as a farmer with one hoe and two rattlesnakes

Busier than a three legged possum tryin’ to cross the interstate

Doing’ the green apple two-step

Granny is so old she was alive when the dead sea was just sick

Happy as a pig in slop

He is so crooked he eats nails and craps screws
[my runner up]

He is so uptight only dogs can hear him fart

He’s as useless as dried spit

I think they were a sandwich short of a picnic.

They could have been. But I say>> I think they were at the Train station when their Ship came in.....

Or their elevator didn't go all the way up

There latter only had Three Steps to get to the Top....;)

Ha
 

It is the last thing lifting off the bed in the morning when I stand up.:bigbow:

I think that's your caboose

It is extremely possible that Jima64 :agree: is correct. I'll leave it at that. The water level in Florida toilets seem very high. :1rotfl::1rotfl::1rotfl:

Or that