Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1941 (SND Vol. II).
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BOX AN(D) DICE, n.phr. “The sum total; everything or everybody” (Ags.2 1935). Always used with hale, whole.Abd. 1886–1894 Anon. Jeems Sim (1st Series) 69 in North. Figaro:
Weel, it's a' come true, the hale box an' dice o't.Ags.(D) 1894 J. B. Salmond My Man Sandy (1899) xviii.:
If I was a man, as I'm a woman, I wud kick the whole box an' dice o' them oot the entry.Ayr. 1889 H. Johnston Chron. of Glenbuckie vii.:
I . . . made owre the whole box and dice [of the fortune] to his sister.
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