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.