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Whole shebang

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Noun
  1. 1
    Everything; the entire thing. idiomatic, with-definite-article

    "The festival had balloons, flowers, fireworks, performers, and the whole shebang."

  2. 2
    everything available; usually preceded by ‘the’ wordnet

Etymology

Fixed expression from shebang, first attested in the United States from the early 1860s, from which time it has increasingly dominated uses of "shebang" itself.

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