The saying 'The whole shebang'
Well, it's certainly possible, although the evidence to support that view is entirely circumstantial. In June 1872, the same year that Twain was using 'shebang' to mean vehicle, the Sedalia Daily Democrat printed a piece which used the name just to mean 'thing', and this is the earliest example of 'the whole shebang': "Well, the Democracy …
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