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holus-bolus

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
holus-bolus /ˌhəʊləsˈbəʊləs/

▶adverb N. Amer. or archaic all at once.

– origin C19 (orig. dial.): perh. pseudo-Latin for ‘whole bolus, whole lump’.

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