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tomwed 04-10-2018 01:30 AM

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?

CFrance 04-10-2018 02:01 AM

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.

mixsonci 04-10-2018 02:28 AM

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

CFrance 04-10-2018 02:52 AM

What is a fell swoop?

Two Bills 04-10-2018 05:07 AM

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

Topspinmo 04-10-2018 05:58 AM

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Originally Posted by tomwed (Post 1531679)
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?


IMO it means you over brought:22yikes:

Topspinmo 04-10-2018 05:59 AM

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

CFrance 04-10-2018 06:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Topspinmo (Post 1531699)
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!"

fw102807 04-10-2018 06:27 AM

Cool beans!

tomwed 04-10-2018 07:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Two Bills (Post 1531690)
I am quite, 'san fairy Anne' about the whole thing!

What does that mean?

billethkid 04-10-2018 07:38 AM

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

Two Bills 04-10-2018 07:42 AM

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!

jsw14 04-10-2018 08:07 AM

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.

tomwed 04-10-2018 08:13 AM

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Originally Posted by jsw14 (Post 1531733)
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."

tomwed 04-10-2018 08:32 AM

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Originally Posted by billethkid (Post 1531721)
How about shebang?
As in one can get the whole shebang.

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


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