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Whole shooting match

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Everything; the entire collection, endeavor, or activity. idiomatic

    "It started raining on their picnic and they had to move the whole shooting match inside."

Etymology

Compare whole shitting match. Perhaps that term is a vulgarization of this term, or this term is a bowdlerization of that term.

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