mutually assured destruction

A phrase, possibly coined by Arthur C. Clarke, to describe a situation where both parties can destroy the other, but not before the attacked party destroys the attacker.

Mutually assured destruction is certain now that the USSR have nuclear weapons.

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shebang

Meaningless sentence particle used exclusively as a part of the phrase "the whole shebang".

Or, in UNIX, the string #!

He did it all, the whole shebang.

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