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Holus-bolus

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Adverb
  1. 1
    All together; entirely; without modification. not-comparable

    "to accept a story holus-bolus."

Etymology

Unknown. Possibly of Ancient Greek origin, from ὅλος (hólos, “whole”) and βόλος (bólos, “a throw with a casting net”), or βῶλος (bôlos, “lump”). May have been Latinized (i.e., -us ending as in masculine singular in Latin, as opposed to -os ending for masculine singular in Greek).

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