(often attributively or figuratively) An unsophisticated method of committing robbery by grabbing someone's property and attempting to flee with it.

Alternative form of kit and caboodle

To use a combination of political, military and economic strategies that aim to gain and maintain power by breaking up larger concentrations of power into chunks that individually have less power than the one implementing the strategy.

A strategy for achieving political or military control.

In order to rule securely, do not allow alliances between your enemies.

(politics) Synonym of divide and conquer

(Ireland, historical) Electoral strategy pursued by the Irish Republican movement in the 1980s and early 1990s, where elections in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland were contested by Sinn Féin, while the IRA continued military operations against the British Army and RUC.

(historical) A small traveling circus featuring animals as entertainment. / (idiomatic) Any presentation or display that is overly contrived or intricate.

(biblical) A deuterocanonical, apocryphal book of the Bible.

If one does not discipline a child, he or she will never learn obedience and good manners.