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French
FrenchTout le saint-frusquin
Meaning: The whole lot; everything one owns.
Literally: The whole holy frusquin
Example: “Pour trois jours de camping, il a emporté tout le saint-frusquin.” — For three days of camping, he took the whole kit and caboodle.
English equivalent: The whole kit and caboodle
Equivalents in other languages
German: mit allem Drum und Dran Literally: With everything around and on it
English: the whole kit and caboodle
Origin: Frusquin was 17th-century slang for a man's clothes and belongings, and saint was attached purely as an intensifier, with no religious content. English says the whole kit and caboodle, built the same way from two obscure halves.
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