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whole box of tricks

whole box of tricks noun: everything and anything associated with a certain enterprise.

Noun

whole box of tricks

  1. (idiomatic) Everything and anything associated with a certain enterprise.
    • He can't defend Berry, and yet he is afraid to make it too lively for him, in case the "party" should, by some chance or other, believe in "the organ," and upset the whole box of tricks.1880 October 30, The Weekly Times, Melbourne, page 17, column 1

Questions about whole box of tricks

What does whole box of tricks mean?
Whole box of tricks means everything and anything associated with a certain enterprise.
What part of speech is whole box of tricks?
Whole box of tricks is a noun.

Words near whole box of tricks in the dictionary

  1. whole
  2. whole bag of tricks
  3. whole ball of wax
  4. whole blood
  5. whole boiling
  6. whole box of tricks
  7. whole chebang
  8. whole child
  9. whole children
  10. whole cloth
  11. whole cloths

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