whole box of tricks
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[edit]Noun
[edit]- (idiomatic) Everything and anything associated with a certain enterprise.
- 1880 October 30, The Weekly Times, Melbourne, page 17, column 1:
- He can't defend Berry, and yet he is afraid to make it too lively for him, in case the "party" should, by some chance or other, believe in "the organ," and upset the whole box of tricks.