Green’s Dictionary of Slang

whole shooting match, the phr.

also whole shooting family, ...gallery, ...shooting lot

(orig. US) absolutely everything.

[US]A.H. Lewis Wolfville 13: I’ll turn you for the whole shootin’-match.
[US]S.E. White Blazed Trail 175: We’re going to burn your mill; we’re going to burn your yards; we’re going to burn your whole shooting match, you low-lived whelp!
[US]M. Glass Potash And Perlmutter 188: I bet the whole shooting-match don’t fetch five hundred dollars.
[US]T.H. Kelly What Outfit, Buddy? 101: Regimental, brigade, division, and the whole damn shootin’-match.
[US]C. McKay Banjo 254: Everything comes heah. Eats and drinks and the whole shooting family.
[US]D. Hammett ‘First Thin Man’ in Nightmare Town (2001) 348: Killed all three of them — the whole shooting match.
[UK]P. Cheyney Don’t Get Me Wrong (1956) 100: He will get the Grearson half of the formula that way an’ then he’s got the whole shootin’ gallery in his own hands.
[US]H. Miller Tropic of Capricorn (1964) 83: That’s why God and the whole shooting match upstairs in our crazy dustbins […] means something to him.
[NZ]I. Hamilton Till Human Voices Wake Us 186: I’m up against the whole bloody shooting match.
[US](con. 1920s–30s) J.O. Killens Youngblood (1956) 297: Pa and Big Jim and Charlie Wilcox and the whole shooting match.
[Ire](con. 1890–1910) ‘Flann O’Brien’ Hard Life (1962) 132: Faith and can’t you see? The whole shooting gallery collapsed under me.
[UK]P. Larkin ‘Wild Oats’ in Whitsun Weddings 41: Faces in those days sparked / The whole shooting-match off.
[US]C. Himes Blind Man with a Pistol (1971) 98: The DA’s got a homicide bureau for his own use [...] attorneys and detectives and laboratory technicians — the whole shooting lot.
[UK]P. Theroux Picture Palace 10: I had doubts about the whole shooting-match.
[Ire]B. Quinn Smokey Hollow 158: Come on the whole shooting gallery of you. Gather your paraphernalia.
[US]S. King Dolores Claiborne 293: That was the fall when Kennedy n Khruschev were decidin whether or not to blow up the whole shootin match.
[Ire]P. Howard PS, I Scored the Bridesmaids 192: There’s, like, eveything in there, we’re talking cooker, fridge [...] the whole shooting match.