whole shebang

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whole shebang

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

noun whole shebangs · whole chebang · whole shabang

idiomatic, informal, with definite article Everything; the entire thing. The festival had balloons, flowers, fireworks, performers, and the whole shebang.
Similar: all the marbles, bag and baggage, everytang, everything but the galley stove, everything but the kitchen sink, everything under the sun, full monty, hook, line and sinker, kit and caboodle, lock, stock and barrel

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noun the entire thing

Español	todo el tinglado, tinglado entero, todo el paquete, toda la shuntalada, shuntalada entera
Français	tout l'attirail, tout le bataclan
Русский	всего-то делов vsevo-to delov, вот и всё дело vot i vsjo delo, вся штука vsja štuka, всё и вся vsjo i vsja

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@misc{whole_shebang_2026,
  title = {whole shebang},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/whole%20shebang},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}