whole shooting match

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释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Everything; the entire collection, endeavor, or activity.

    习语

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

词源

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

来源:wiktionary