| 单词 | box and dice |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbox and dice P3. colloquial. box and dice: a group of things or people in its entirety; everything or everyone relating to a particular situation; the entire matter, the whole thing. Esp. as the whole box and dice. In later use chiefly Australian and New Zealand. [Compare sense 2c and dice-box n. a.] ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > the whole or all > [noun] > the whole quantity, number, or amount > the whole lot every whita1450 every stitch?a1500 the devil and all1543 prow and poop1561 Christ-cross-row1579 every snip1598 thread and thrum1600 boodle1625 hair and hoof1705 rag-tag (also rag, tag) and bob-tail1725 tutti quanti1772 lot1791 lock, stock, and barrel1824 stock and fluke1825 the whole boiling1837 box and dice1839 the whole caboodlea1848 sub-cheese1859 the whole kit and boiling (boodle, caboodle, cargo)1859 the whole jingbang1866 the whole hypothec1871 the whole ball of wax1882 the whole (entire) shoot1884 (at) every whip-stitch1888 work1899 issue1919 guntz1958 full monty1979 1839 Northern Star & Leeds Gen. Advertiser 6 July 6/5 I have been served with a list of forty-eight special jurymen.., with a direction that I can strike off any twelve that I object to, but I told them they might keep the whole box and dice in it, for I would not strike off one. 1844 Sydney Morning Herald 3 Sept. 3/1 Yourself, your committee-men.., your bullies, and the whole ‘box and dice’ of you, should be continually stirred up by a sort of whipper-in-general. 1910 P. W. Joyce Eng. as we speak it in Ireland 223 I'll send you all the books and manuscripts, box and dice. 1962 B. Crump One of Us 169 He must have used about ten plugs of gelignite. Blew the whole box and dice to bits. 2015 Observer (Gladstone, Queensland) 9 Mar. 5/1 I went from not knowing anything about superannuation, to knowing the whole box and dice. < as lemmas |
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