whole shooting match
whole shooting match noun: everything; the entire collection, endeavor, or activity.
Noun
whole shooting match
- Everything; the entire collection, endeavor, or activity.
- It started raining on their picnic and they had to move the whole shooting match inside.
- Synonyms:
- all the marbles, bag and baggage, everytang, everything but the galley stove, everything but the kitchen sink, everything under the sun, full monty, hook, line and sinker, kit and caboodle
Synonyms of whole shooting match
- all the marbles
- bag and baggage
- everytang
- everything but the galley stove
- everything but the kitchen sink
- everything under the sun
- full monty
- hook
- line and sinker
- kit and caboodle
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Origin of whole shooting match
Compare whole shitting match. Perhaps that term is a vulgarization of this term, or this term is a bowdlerization of that term.
Questions about whole shooting match
- What does whole shooting match mean?
- Whole shooting match means everything; the entire collection, endeavor, or activity.
- What part of speech is whole shooting match?
- Whole shooting match is a noun.
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