oodle Idiom

kit and caboodle

everything, all the stuff, the whole shebang The canoe tipped, and it all fell in the river - kit and caboodle!

oodles

lots, more than we need, scads """Do we have enough salad?"" ""Yes. Oodles!"""

the whole caboodle

(See kit and caboodle)

toodles/toodle-loo

bye, good-bye, so long """Toodle-loo,"" she said, smiling. ""I must go now."""

use one's noodle

Idiom(s): use one's head AND use one's noggin; use one's noodle

Theme: INTELLIGENCE

to use one's own intelligence. (The words noggin and noodle are slang terms for "head.")
• You can do better in math if you'll just use your head.
• Jane uses her noggin and gets things done correctly and on time.
• Yes, she sure knows how to use her noodle.

Whole kit and caboodle

The whole kit and caboodle means 'everything' required or involved in something. ('Kaboodle' is an alternative spelling.)

caboodle

caboodle
see whole kit and caboodle, the.

whole kit and caboodle, the

whole kit and caboodle, the
Everything, every part, as in He packed up all his gear, the whole kit and caboodle, and walked out. This expression is a redundancy, for kit has meant “a collection or group” since the mid-1700s (though this meaning survives only in the full idiom today), and caboodle has been used with the same meaning since the 1840s. In fact caboodle is thought to be a corruption of the phrase kit and boodle, another redundant phrase, since boodle also meant “a collection.”