whole shooting match
Example Sentences
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Boeheim and Co. run the whole shooting match, and no matter what they do, you can’t run ’em out of town unless they miss March Madness three straight times.
From Washington Post • Mar. 13, 2016
Gideon needs his version of “What Say You Meg,” the song that currently gives the whole shooting match to the other guy.
From Chicago Tribune • Jun. 26, 2014
The modern world has gone barmy about computers, and it owes the whole shooting match to Turing.
From BBC • Jun. 22, 2012
Gavyn Davies, last chairman of the pre-trust governors, thinks Ofcom should run the whole shooting match.
From The Guardian • Mar. 20, 2011
He knew that every year the team had a chance of going to State and had won the whole shooting match four times since 1964.
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
