whole shooting match, the phr.
(orig. US) absolutely everything.
Mirror of Life 12 Oct. 11/2: The designer had no very great strain on his intellect, for the entire ‘shooting match,’ as Texas sports say, consists of four high wooden walls. | ||
Wolfville 13: I’ll turn you for the whole shootin’-match. | ||
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! | ||
Potash And Perlmutter 188: I bet the whole shooting-match don’t fetch five hundred dollars. | ||
What Outfit, Buddy? 101: Regimental, brigade, division, and the whole damn shootin’-match. | ||
Banjo 254: Everything comes heah. Eats and drinks and the whole shooting family. | ||
Nightmare Town (2001) 348: Killed all three of them — the whole shooting match. | ‘First Thin Man’ in||
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. | ||
Tropic of Capricorn (1964) 83: That’s why God and the whole shooting match upstairs in our crazy dustbins […] means something to him. | ||
Till Human Voices Wake Us 186: I’m up against the whole bloody shooting match. | ||
(con. 1920s–30s) Youngblood (1956) 297: Pa and Big Jim and Charlie Wilcox and the whole shooting match. | ||
(con. 1890–1910) Hard Life (1962) 132: Faith and can’t you see? The whole shooting gallery collapsed under me. | ||
Whitsun Weddings 41: Faces in those days sparked / The whole shooting-match off. | ‘Wild Oats’ in||
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. | ||
Picture Palace 10: I had doubts about the whole shooting-match. | ||
Smokey Hollow 158: Come on the whole shooting gallery of you. Gather your paraphernalia. | ||
Dolores Claiborne 293: That was the fall when Kennedy n Khruschev were decidin whether or not to blow up the whole shootin match. | ||
PS, I Scored the Bridesmaids 192: There’s, like, eveything in there, we’re talking cooker, fridge [...] the whole shooting match. |